Da Marto had banned the book from the Burlingame Intermediate School late last month when the 13- and 14-year-old students were nearly halfway through it, said their English teacher, Amelia Ramos ...

At the eighth grade level, the decline is more stark as 34.6 percent of students scored within "% Developing & Above" in 2024 while 40.5 percent of students met that marker last year.

For the 1st grade fiction list, for instance, it says that the average ATOS book level was 1.3 overall, meaning that those top 20 books, on average, were suitable for a child in the third month of ...

Of the 22 states with readability requirements for ballot measures, only Rhode Island and New York reference a specific reading level, and New York doesn't even have an initiative process.

By comparison, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is written at the 8th-grade level and the Book of Exodus in the King James version of the Bible is written at a 10th-grade level.

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...