Johnny can read. Jane can read. But they may not fully comprehend.
Nation & World Johnny can read. Jane can read. But they may not fully comprehend. Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer March 12, 2025 4 min read Ed School panel looks at how to reverse declining scores on recent ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Educators have made significant progress in the science of reading in recent decades. Teachers know how to get students to the point where they can take on simple declarative sentences. So Johnny and Jane can read — but they have trouble comprehending more complex ideas. There is still much work to do, said experts at an Ed School panel in a webinar on Thursday. Moderated by Pamela Mason, senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the panel highlighted the need to improve literacy outcomes in light of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — known as the “Nation’s Report Card” — which showed declines in reading scores for U.S. fourth and eighth...