This fall, it seemed like every other headline was about plummeting reading and math scores in the U.S.: High schoolers in the United States last year earned their lowest marks on reading and math in two decades When it comes to reading, the nation's third- through eighth-graders are still mired in a pandemic-era slump, The average 12th-grade reading score is now 10 points lower than the first-ever recorded test more than 30 years ago. As a parent, that’s hard to hear. You wa

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