Louisiana ranked 50th nationwide in childhood literacy. Today, they’ve climbed to 16th. This makes our ears perk up.

Student literacy is in trouble nationally. Illinois is one of 41 states where just 1 in 3 or fewer of its fourth-graders met ...

Wayne Walters can still recall the enormous logistical challenge of handing out thousands of paper packets of classwork to ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily ...

Texas lawmakers need to provide funding for evidence-based literacy interventions, along with more screening to identify students who are struggling.

The foundations will launch Ready to Learn, a $15 million joint initiative intended to boost literacy development for ...

The Pendleton Public Library has received $1.2 million from the Oregon Department of Education’s Early Literacy Community ...

Five key actions could help improve Oklahoma schools, which are lagging behind China's. Merit pay for teachers is one of them ...

The Library Foundation of Spokane County will kick off its annual Library Giving Day on Tuesday to raise money for the Spokane County Library District’s summer reading program.

The Omaha school district has set an ambitious goal: have all students read on grade level by 2030 ... to a body of research about how humans learn to read and how reading should be taught ...

They can hear sounds, they can produce sounds, but then they have to learn how ... sure they're reading. So we see it in that little, tiny area. It is playing out in those third-grade test scores.