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

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

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

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

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 ...

North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever seen ...

A bill leaving decisions on holding back thousands of fourth graders affected by Tennessee's controversial reading law up to schools and parents passed the state legislature on Thursday. A ...

(WXYZ) — A new study released by The Education Trust-Midwest shows Michigan falling in 4th grade reading, which is a big predictor of academic success and life ...

Scores for Louisiana students fell in three of four grades on the nation’s report card but showed gains among fourth-grade readers amid a state push to improve dismal literacy rates, officials said ...

More than 48,000 fourth graders in the state were reading below the basic level in 2024. Put another way: In the average Pennsylvania fourth grade class of 25, nine students can’t read at a basic ...