What to know Syracuse schools have struggled to show substantial improvement in student literacy through state test scores, the primary way schools are evaluated. Following the lead of many ...

There’s this focus on K-3 without a lot of resources dedicated to helping the kids in secondary school who fell through the ...

Almost every state has overhauled elementary school reading programs. But one group of students is getting left behind.

Illinois’ new early literacy screening law aims to identify reading issues in K-3 students, but some worry it could mislabel children.

Over the next few years, we’ll learn whether California’s educational establishment will finally embrace phonics, and whether ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s boast about per-pupil spending exemplifies the Capitol’s focus on money in its education debates, rather than results.

This is the only county — the only board of super­visors — that has stepped up to support education in this […] ...

My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.

Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted most of his final State of the State address last week to touting what had been accomplished during the past seven years, and one boast was about California’s public school ...

Newsom said his new budget would increase spending on the system to $27,418 per student, which includes federal money.

A recent analysis of the American Time Use Survey revealed a steady decline in pleasure reading, reading that is not for work or school. According to the researchers at University College London and ...