When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired ...

Ms. Jackie, a teacher at Detroit Prep in Detroit, MI, works with her first grade students. The newest NAEP results landed this week – with a thud. Twelfth-grade reading proficiency fell to 35% and ...

When market research firm Circana issued a report on the slump in the middle grade market in July, it was not so much a surprise as a continuation of disheartening news for the category, whose sales ...

More students in the Wake County Public School System are passing their standardized tests, according to new data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. It’s a sign Wake students ...

States receiving federal literacy grants would have to follow the science of reading, under a bill the House education ...

CINCINNATI — An Ohio House Bill looks to end the state's 'Third Grade Reading Guarantee,' which requires third graders to pass a reading test in order to move on to the fourth grade. Some who support ...

Everywhere House Speaker Kyle Hilbert goes, the topic of childhood literacy follows. Hilbert, R-Bristow, said improving Oklahoma’s elementary reading scores is “top of the agenda for ...

Tens of thousands of students across Tennessee are awaiting the results of their standardized tests, which will set off a fast-moving timeline to determine whether they're held back under a ...

A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

Amid a deepening national literacy crisis, awareness is growing that far too many California children do not know how to read. The problem is not that our children can’t learn, experts say, but that ...