In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as ...

Parents said they still had many unanswered questions when a final recommendation on enrollment adjustment was made Wednesday to the Unit 5 school board.

Nearly 1,000 fifth graders belted out songs for the 250th anniversary of the United States at District 91's Patriotic Program.

States receiving federal literacy grants would have to follow the science of reading, under a bill the House education committee passed Tuesday. Members unanimously approved the legislation, another ...

Nearly 60% — or about 51,000 — of Idaho’s K-3 students are reading at grade level this fall, according to just-released results from a statewide reading exam. That’s up from last fall, when about 58% ...

Since the school district implemented a new phonics program in Bradley Elementary School, 80% of the kids are now reading above grade level.

NJ is expanding phonics-based instruction and early literacy screening as officials work to address reading proficiency gaps ...

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 ...

Rahm Emanuel is spot on in his op-ed, “The ‘Mississippi Marathon’ Is Teaching Kids to Read” (Jan. 22).I began school in 1960 and learned how to read through phonics. In the 1980s when I started my ...

Sydnee Graf was arrested back in December while meeting a minor with whom she is accused of having "sexual conversations" Chris Spargo is a senior reporter at PEOPLE who joined the crime team in 2025.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -Ohio Department of Education and Workforce officials are developing professional development courses in the literacy instructional approach known as the “science of reading” for ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) — An elementary school teacher in Kentucky is accused of having sexual conversations with a fifth-grade student. Police said the conversations included discussion of ...