A teacher captivated her fourth graders with a mysterious breakup letter that doubled as a fun history lesson and a message ...

Thousands of third-graders who fall short of Arkansas’ reading standard could be forced to repeat the grade under a rule ...

In her final budget as Governor, Gretchen Whitmer wants to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for childhood literacy ...

About 23% of third graders, or nearly 12,000 students, scored below the required reading level last spring. But fewer than 3% were ultimately held back, according to newly provided state data.

When Broadway leading lady Patti Murin began reading her fourth grade journal, she wasn't exactly sure what she would find. Murin learned that she was a true '80s child: a lover of Milli Vanilli, The ...

SB241 would allow schools to hold back third graders who can't read at grade level. But it would also introduce more reading tests for younger students — and new supports. Here's everything that would ...

An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a ...

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will propose a $625 million infusion of state funding into literacy efforts in her final ...

Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America’s ...

Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...