Bible stories like Jonah and the Whale would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list that drew an overflow crowd ...

Glen Acres Elementary School's third-grade students have been named state champions in the NCAA Read to the Final Four ...

The National Park Foundation has a nationwide partnership with schools to give fourth graders across the country the ...

Zara Aldrich has a 12th-grade reading level, and has been accepted into two elite groups for those with high IQ's.

The state Board of Education defines "adequate growth" for third graders as a student scoring at least 5 percentage points ...

Usha Vance's new podcast, 'Storytime With the Second Lady,' was inspired by declining childhood literacy rates ...

Escambia County third graders who are at risk of being held back will have a chance to be promoted through a new summer ...

Tests show nearly 40% of fourth graders can’t read at a basic level in the U.S., a nation where 1 in 5 adults is now ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost ...

John Crawford is sounding an alarm he fears some parents aren’t heeding: Thousands of third-graders in Arkansas could be forced to repeat the grade next school year. A mixed response “tells me that ...

When Broadway leading lady Patti Murin began reading her fourth grade journal, she wasn't exactly sure what she would find. Murin learned that she was a true '80s ...

A group of fourth graders at Brecknock Elementary School have turned a class project into a state title. The students recently won first place at the PA Invention Convention, earning a trip to compete ...