LA Johnson/NPR Hiya and welcome to another version of our weekly education news roundup! These are a number of of the big stories that bought our consideration this week. U.S. readers slip a bit Fourth-grade students in the Russian Federation and Singapore earned top scores on the PIRLS 2016 , a global assessment of reading comprehension given every five years. Maybe most impressive, greater than 1 / 4 of students in each nations are, based on the results, advanced readers.<br> <br> <br> <br>