"As educators reflect on literacy outcomes, it is worth paying attention to what the data actually reveals," writes Kim Hodgkinson in a Guest Commentary. "When students are supported with structure, ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating ...

Louisiana spends less per student than most of the country, yet its fourth graders are outperforming peers in nearly every other state. Data released Jan. 29 from the Urban Institute ranks Louisiana ...

Mississippi's fourth-grade reading proficiency significantly improved while Kansas's declined between 2013 and the present. Mississippi's improvement is attributed to student-focused reforms, not ...

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student reads a book in a New York City library in 2022. Since 2021, more than a dozen states have explicitly banned a ...

Everywhere House Speaker Kyle Hilbert goes, the topic of childhood literacy follows. Hilbert, R-Bristow, said improving ...

In a state where three out of every five fourth graders are not reading at grade level, Michigan’s policymakers and powerbrokers are on track to take a year off from trying to tackle this crisis at ...

Our fourth-grade reading scores have fallen to 1998 levels. The state must double down on investing in evidence-based reading instruction. Credit: Getty Images. New York is trailing behind on the most ...