Once ranked last in the nation for reading achievement, Mississippi has successfully transformed its trajectory over the past several years. Since 2013, the state has focused on improving reading ...

Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

A study of 436 pairs of identical and same-sex nonidentical twins at age 10 and again a year later at 11 finds that children's reading achievement at age 10 predicted their independent reading at 11, ...

Students’ reading achievement in both 4th and 8th grades fell three points during the pandemic, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. The decline put the nation’s students roughly ...

Schools in Florida and across the nation are working to address learning loss from pandemic disruptions. Early predictions suggested the spring closures may cost students a third of a year’s learning ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -A new Ohio Department of Education report showed 46 districts and 104 charter schools were required to submit reading improvement plans last year due to low test scores in early grades ...

Source: Aaliyah Williams During this Black History Month, let us attend for a moment to the reading achievement gap, as it affects all of us regardless of race. Here's why. Lack of literacy is linked ...

Half of the students in Chambersburg Area School District cannot read by the end of third grade. The district is shifting from "balanced literacy" to "structured literacy," which focuses on phonics. A ...

A national report card finds reading proficiency for American fourth-grade and eighth-grade students is declining. We go behind the numbers to understand why. Liana Loewus: “The reading test is kind ...