Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With American schools facing a literacy crisis, the “Mississippi miracle” has become the poster child for improved reading ...

SB241 would allow schools to hold back third graders who can't read at grade level. But it would also introduce more reading ...

Supervisors of instruction presented a first reading Jan. 4 to update Queen Anne’s County Public Schools’ Promotion and ...

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.

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

NEW YORK — North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA) and 3P Learning announced new results from an online summer learning camp focused on improving reading proficiency among third grade students. More ...

One hundred eighty-five pages. That’s the length of Culver City Unified School District’s LCAP — our Local Control Accountability Plan. Graphs, numbers, charts, data. I flip through the pages, ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." ...

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

Weakley County's Greenfield School is a statewide "Bright Spot" in education, ranked among Tennessee's Top 5 for exceptional 3rd grade reading proficiency rates. How are they doing it?

Advocates for the law have long argued the point isn’t to hold kids back, but make sure they get the support they need to be ready for fourth grade.