California’s elementary children are still struggling to meet literacy standards in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic—but a recent study shows districts that implement literacy programs improved their students’ reading and writing scores regardless of demographics and resources.
A recent study by the literacy advocacy group California Reading Coalition found that in 2022, only about one-fourth of low-income Latino third graders met grade-level standards in reading and writing and that their scores fell, on average, by eight percentage points over the last three years.
However, researchers noted that several of the state’s lowest-performing schools in 2019 made significant improvements in 2022, likely driven by a focus on reading and instruction….