Griffin cited Act 602, which requires ballot titles to be written at no higher than an eighth-grade reading level, and simultaneously declared an emergency. It went into effect on April 14 ...

A bill that would prohibit any such measures with titles written at or above a high school reading level advanced out of a Senate committee on Wednesday. The grade level would be determined by the ...

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

The goal outlined in the strategic plan includes increasing the percentage of third graders that reach the 'meeting the grade level' standard in English Language Arts and reading. Grades 3-8 are ...

First Tee Colorado Rocky Mountains' Read N' Swing program pairs students reading below grade level with mentors for ... pre-test students and select books matched to their individual reading ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading ... DEI and books, or some ...