Tinaya York, a literacy consultant and founder of , has worked with students of all ages in a number of different roles in education, including teacher, principal, and reading specialist. Through that work, she鈥檚 seen kids of all ages struggling to read.
Jade Wexler, a professor of special education at the University of Maryland, also sees the growing number of older students struggling to read鈥�NAEP scores have shown continued declines in reading, with 70 percent of 8th graders reading below proficient level as of 2024.
Here, York and Wexler share some of the trends they鈥檙e seeing amongst struggling older readers, and how they think schools can approach this issue鈥攚ith both school-wide strategies, and individual interventions.
