Jun. 21—Some Alabama school districts made big gains on the state's third grade reading test, even as expectations grew tougher, but local districts generally saw a slight drop in the percentage of ...

Merced City School District superintendent Julianna Stocking participates in Reading Across America recently at an elementary school. The district is working to improve poor literacy proficiency ...

Reading is the major concern of the Oklahoma State Department of Education as they keep a close eye on progress at Tulsa Public Schools. The state has new benchmarks for the district. Reading Partners ...

Virginia is behind Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee when it comes to helping all children read by third grade. These states have taken a back-to-the-basics approach grounded in research and ...

Parents and teachers are responsible for three pivotal benchmarks in a child’s development of brain circuitry for reading: the first from birth to age 3 or 4, a second at the beginning of kindergarten ...

The outlook on benchmark reading levels for third graders across Indiana has remained dismal, despite the state’s strong support for K-12 education, including school choice, high-quality pre-K ...

Parents and teachers are responsible for three pivotal benchmarks in a child’s development of brain circuitry for reading: the first from birth to age 3 or 4, a second at the beginning of kindergarten ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades. A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are ...

Pupils taught through the medium of isiXhosa, isiZulu and Siswati will be expected to read 20 and 35 correct words per minute in their vernacular by the end of grade 2 and 3 respectively. In ...

The Oregon Department of Education wants to raise the targets for the state's reading test. The draft recommendation was officially presented to the State Board of Education this afternoon but not ...