US reading scores hit near-25-year low in latest global assessment

Reading scores among 15-year-olds in the United States have fallen to the lowest level in about 25 years, according to an international education assessment.On Tuesday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released findings from the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a global metric for educational achievement.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3NYC’s AI ban through grade 8 sets stage for rest of US, experts saylist 2 of 3Advocates decry US House vote to defund universities that boycott Israellist 3 of 3US adds 162,000 jobs in August, raising Fed rate hike expectationsend of listThe results showed that US reading scores fell 14 points from 2022, the last time PISA results were released.The decline was part of a broader international trend, with an OECD average from 23 countries also dropping 16 points.But the US stood out for the size of its performance gap. Some 25.7 percent of US students were ranked as low performers in reading, while 13.3 percent were flagged as top performers.“Looking across all 90 participating countries, there was not a single country with significantly wider inequality in reading scores than th...