📚 Education Aug 28, 2026 · Dacia Toll

AI Can Help One of K-12’s Biggest Challenges: Middle School Reading

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For years, the United States has treated its reading crisis as an early grades problem. This narrow focus misses the bigger challenge: the “comprehension wall” that many students hit in middle school. As students move into middle school, they no longer focus on learning to read. They must understand what they are reading. Right now, they struggle to do so: Only 30% of eighth graders were proficient in reading in 2024, the lowest level in 30 years.I witnessed this problem firsthand as a principal

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