Several students at the Alexandria school posted low reading scores last spring, putting them at risk of having to repeat ...

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.

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

As the top literacy official at the Louisiana Department of Education, Shanna Beber has seen big changes in the way students learn to read. Since 2021, state education officials and lawmakers have ...

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 ...

Students all over the country lost ground during the pandemic, with remote learning especially hard for young kids. Experts say other challenges to students’ reading achievement include too much use ...

Here in Illinois — where only 30% of fourth graders are reading at grade level — education officials should look to success stories wherever they can find them. Earlier this year, we wrote with dismay ...