There are many literacy textbooks available but no clear way to determine which ones are the best – and most likely to turn ...

Despite decades of legislation meant to boost children’s reading levels, literacy scores have remained relatively stagnant ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They only have five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card results didn’t arrive as a warning; they arrived as a verdict. Reading scores are down again, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CBS DETROIT) - Michigan has ranked in the bottom 10 states for fourth-grade reading, according to a report from The Education Trust-Midwest. According to the report, the ranking is "projected to ...

Any hopes of New Jersey's public school students bouncing back to the levels of academic standing they had before the COVID-19 pandemic were dashed Wednesday, based on data published in the Nation's ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. Thousands of Indiana students advanced through elementary school without demonstrating critical reading skills, new data from the Indiana ...