‘Kids want to read harder stuff’ — Harvard Gazette

‘Kids want to read harder stuff’ — Harvard Gazette

Nation & World ‘Kids want to read harder stuff’ Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent October 28, 2025 4 min read Are outdated teaching methods to blame for declining U.S. reading scores? Average reading scores for fourth-grade students in 2024 dropped two points since 2022 and five points since 2019, as measured by the so-called nation’s report card. But according to a recent talk at Harvard’s Graduate…

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Harvard Gazette: ‘Kids want to read harder stuff’. “…according to a recent talk at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, the trend of American children reading below their grade levels stretches back decades before the pandemic — and teaching methods that fail to adequately challenge students, counterintuitive as it may seem, could be the culprit.”The post Harvard Gazette: ‘Kids want to read harder stuff’ first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Fireho…