When called upon to read aloud last fall, Anthony Branch slumped in his seat and hid his brown eyes behind a textbook. In his first week of 2nd grade, the 7-year-old stammered over “again” and “think.

The Cheyenne Kiwanis and Rotary clubs are collaborating to bring their literacy program 'Grateful Reads' into every 2nd grade ...

Amy’s eyes scanned the page while she chewed on her pen, looking confused as she completed a reading check. A recent district ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The project originally started with the books only being given to a few classes, but now the entire first-grade class in the Redmond district receives a book. The Rotary Club ...

Third grade reading proficiency matters—enormously. It is eerily predictive of academic and career success; students who don’t reach this benchmark are four times less likely to graduate from high ...

In 1993, in its education report card, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce named literacy as a significant issue plaguing Metro Public Schools. Twenty-six years later, 7 out of 10 third-graders in Metro ...

THERE has been a decline in the national averages by six percentage points for literacy and four percentage points for numeracy at the grade 4 level, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information ...