It shows a 6-percentage-point decline between 2009 and 2015 in the proportion of 4th grade students who reported reading for fun in their spare time, from 44 percent to 38 percent.

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have inched up in mathematics, new test data show, but the results are more mixed in reading, with 4th grade scores flat compared with two years ago. Overall ...

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...