National and state reading scores for elementary school students are down. And in Berlin, New Hampshire, some teachers and parents say there’s a literacy crisis happening in their school district. At ...

Third grade students at Hamilton Avenue School in Greenwich read independently during their reading hour. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror Why are only 32% of Connecticut fourth-graders reading on ...

One of the animating goals of The Next 30 Years is to introduce readers—whether policymakers, practitioners, or anyone else concerned with improving student outcomes—to voices they may not yet know, ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on ...

Supporters of bolstering how teacher candidates in California are taught to teach reading cheered in 2021 when the Legislature agreed and mandated change. They remained enthusiastic a year later when ...

Amid the partisan noise surrounding education there is a fundamental truth: Student literacy must not be politicized. Ensuring that every child can read proficiently is not a partisan issue − it is a ...

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to ...

Gov. Mike DeWine releasing the results of an audit of literacy education programs at 48 Ohio colleges and universities. 33 were fully in alignment, five were in partial alignment and 10 were not in ...

After a few easy prompts to get them started, Michele Malesyzk warns her daughter: This next one’s going to be tough. “ANG,” says Maleszyk, emphasizing the three sounds in the one blended sound found ...