Citrus County's fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders continue to struggle with their writing compared with students elsewhere in Florida, according to scores on the 2005 Florida Comprehensive Assessment ...

For Uny Santamaria, a fifth-grader at Brownell Elementary School, being able to read “Frindle” is no small victory. She began the 2006-07 school year with uncertainty. Fluent in Spanish, she struggled ...

Undergraduate students at CSUN have maintained a steady proficiency in their writing skills over the past several years, in contrast to a study done and published by two sociologists who say that ...

A growing Latino population is one of several mitigating circumstances adding to the challenge area school districts face in showing proficiency in academic testing. For example, Esma Lewis Elementary ...

About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday. The test, ...