A New Way To Measure Schools; Russia Readers Best U.S.
What the tax plan means for students, the GAO weighs in on vouchers, and more in our weekly roundup.
Hello and welcome to another edition of our weekly education news roundup! These are a few of the big stories that got our attention this week.
U.S. readers slip a bit
Fourth-grade students in the Russian Federation and Singapore earned top scores on the PIRLS 2016, an international assessment of reading comprehension given every five years. Perhaps most impressive, more than a quarter of students in both countries are, according to the results, advanced readers.
As for the U.S., 50 countries administered the Progress in International Reading
