This September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First lady Abby Cox reads a book to the kids as she and Gov. Spencer Cox welcome kids from Polk Elementary in Ogden into the ...

Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" ...

Only 36% of Arizona third graders are reading proficiently, according to the Arizona Progress Meter. What can be changed to ...

The educators at J.B. Nachman Elementary School knew they had to work fast. Several students at the Alexandria school posted low reading scores last spring, putting them at risk of having to repeat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Spencer Cox smiles as his wife Abby Cox reads to children at Kearns Library after a press conference discussing the fiscal ...

Students logged reading minutes each week beginning in November.

This weekend, we've been focusing on the new pressures on third grade. Yesterday, we had a report from Florida, the first state to require third graders to show adequate reading proficiency or be held ...

A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading assessment for the 2024-25 school year, according to new data released Thursday by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Literacy is fundamental in determining a child’s educational success and academic future. And when young students are lacking their “ABC” skills, it’s all but certain they will struggle with other ...