The proposed list contains roughly 200 literary works, including a dozen excerpts from the Bible. If the list is approved in June, Texas public schools would be required to use the list beginning in ...

A bill that would require students to repeat the third grade if their test scores aren't high enough is back in the Oklahoma ...

Sweeping changes to public school reading policies, including having struggling readers repeat third grade, overwhelmingly ...

Northwest Area first graders experienced the magic of reading during Friday’s Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program.

I say this as a full-on testing supporter. In addition to being a mom, I’m a social scientist. I love data, and by extension, ...

One in five Americans is functionally illiterate, which affects not only the individual's ability to get ahead but the broader community in terms of economy, jobs and human capital.

In South Africa today, almost everyone has an opinion about education and schooling. Some people think there have been vast ...

Early in my elementary years, it was discovered that I had a reading disability. Fortunately, I received intensive one-on-one intervention during a summer program before returning to school. That ...

North Carolina Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser said he was taken by surprise when a Democratic sheriff who has long opposed cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could ...

In a class of 24 Trenton third graders, the chances are that only three can read adequately. Four can do math on grade level. Julie O’Connor, an urban education writer for NJ Spotlight News, injected ...

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A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly” — although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I ...