The state's Literacy Plan 2030 is a great way to help improve reading scores, but those teaching it need the right tools and ...

Sara Bode of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio speaks with NPR's Emily Kwong about why many pediatric centers have started screening kids for literacy skills.

Get our briefing — Once a week, local news focused on decisions that affect Lakeland. Pam Craven, executive director of the Learning Resource Center (LRC), said many kindergarteners in Polk County ...

The data suggest the slump in academic performance is not rooted only in instructional disruption, but that broader societal shifts might be at play.

A team of researchers from Taiwan has developed PanMETAI, an AI-powered platform that analyzes metabolic fingerprints in a simple blood sample to detect pancreatic cancer at its earliest stages—when ...

It’s never too early to start reading at home with young children. Here’s how parents can be part of their child’s journey of reading and language development. Young children whose parents read five ...

On the Monday, March 2, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Primary season is officially underway, and even though President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot, his influence is shaping races across ...

For some children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don't start in the kindergarten classroom -- they happen first in the doctor's office. With concerns rising about lagging childhood literacy ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office. With concerns rising about lagging childhood ...

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in diagnoses at later stages of the disease. By Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata A ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a standardized test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is ...