When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...

GRAND LEDGE, Mich. (WILX) - On Wednesday, the Michigan Department of Education released the 2025 M-STEP scores. The M-STEP, or Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, is taken each year by ...

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 ...

Red states like Mississippi and Louisiana have been praised for education gains but the clearest path to improving student ...

Michigan children may be significantly lagging behind in fourth-grade reading, eight-grade math and overall in certain K-12 student groups compared to the rest of the country, according to a new study ...

Louisiana spends less per student than most of the country, yet its fourth graders are outperforming peers in nearly every other state. Data released Jan. 29 from the Urban Institute ranks Louisiana ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

In a state where three out of every five fourth graders are not reading at grade level, Michigan’s policymakers and powerbrokers are on track to take a year off from trying to tackle this crisis at ...

In her State of the State Address, Gov. Gretch Whitmer led with education as a key initiative for 2026 and beyond.