The MCAS English language arts exam tests how students are doing relative to grade-level standards in reading, writing and language skills/ See how Worcester County school districts performed on the ...

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 ...

Members of Hatzalah of Michigan, a Jewish volunteer emergency medical service survey the area near Temple Israel following reports of an active shooter on March 12, 2026 in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

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 ...

The newly empowered Harrisburg School District board has a positive financial outlook but faces demographic and staffing challenges.

Fulton County’s literacy coaches helped raise reading scores, offering a model as Georgia considers placing a coach in every K-3 classroom in the state.

It’s time to book it to the library for National Reading Month! National Reading Month is celebrated in March—coinciding with ...

Hamnet” star Jessie Buckley won the Oscar for best actress at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, becoming the first Irish actress to win the prize. This was Buckley’s second Oscar nomination; she was ...

Music and vocal teacher Gretchen Obrovac has been honored as the 2026 Educator of Excellence by the Independence High School Alumni Association.

A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.

A new study reveals that children with ADHD often miss where other people are looking. This happens because their brains have difficulty processing intact faces, rather than failing to notice basic ...

“Progressives” at teachers’ colleges pushed a reading technique called “Balanced Literacy.” Instead of memorizing sounds and ...