Now, teachers and literacy groups are stepping in. Across Arkansas, schools are focused on reading and making sure students ...

Indiana’s Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD) assessment was first implemented in the 2012-13 school year to address ...

Walking into Windsor Park elementary in Corpus Christi, Texas, it’s hard to miss the mass of bright, colorful paper balloons taped on the wall, displaying photos of dozens of children who have read at ...

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 ...

Oklahoma experienced some of the steepest budget cuts to education in the nation and an exodus of tens of thousands of ...

Inspired by Mississippi, more states are holding back third graders who struggle to read. But a new research paper shows that this policy can have harmful long-run consequences for those students.

The MCAS English language arts exam tests how students are doing relative to grade-level standards in reading, writing and ...

Schools and literacy groups in Central Georgia are encouraging reading engagement as experts stress the importance of proficiency by third grade.

PHOENIX — Only 36% of Arizona third graders are reading proficiently, according to the Arizona Progress Meter. The data tracker from the Center for the Future of Arizona looks at the current data ...

Students at elementary schools at APS have improved their reading, including students identified in a landmark lawsuit.

MANILA, Philippines — A congressional body is pushing to replicate a literacy program in Iloilo that raised reading levels among Grade 3 students from 28% to 90% in just one year — results that come ...

Savannah-Chatham schools and the Chatham Education Alliance launch the “Moonshot” literacy initiative aiming for 95% of third-graders reading on grade level within five years.