"Broken" adults' difficult journey begins when they fail to acquire literacy in early years of school. Here's what can be ...

Third graders in Maryland who don’t read on grade level by the end of the school year may find themselves repeating the grade. Maryland’s department of education is considering enacting a statewide ...

Just 44% of third graders were proficient in reading at the end of the 2024-2025 school year, down from 46% the year prior.

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as ...

(NEXSTAR) – While some schools are starting to claw back some of the ground lost due to pandemic-era learning disruptions, there’s still a ways to go, a new report finds. The Nation’s Report Card, ...

Indiana school leaders, education experts, teachers and lawmakers all agree on the same thing: The reading crisis plaguing Indiana's youngest students must be dealt with now. But disagreements arise ...

The State Chamber says third-grade reading, apprenticeships and long-term consistency are key to boosting education and the ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), they performed significantly below their pre-pandemic ...

Illinois lowered its standards in 2025, but over half of third graders still couldn’t read at grade level. It’s a critical ...