Despite decades of debate on reading methods, many US students, especially Black children, struggle to read at grade level.

"Literacy is the root of education," said Kevin Watkins, president of the Port Huron Branch of the NAACP. "You have to learn to read before you can be educated." ...

Plans have been submitted to transform an iconic campus building. The University of Reading wants to preserve and upgrade the Grade II listed URS building on the Whiteknights campus. The URS building, ...

A recent report from Harvard and Stanford Universities shows Vermont saw one of the biggest drops in test scores between 2019 and 2024. The initiative aims to tackle early childhood literacy struggles ...

Essentially, overnight, our work got stopped, and so our revenues got stopped,” a local business owner told The N&O.

In 2024, 40% of Massachusetts 4th graders were reading at or above grade level, according to The Nation’s Report Card. 25 ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to ...

Decades of federal, state, and local reforms have largely failed to yield improvements in student achievement.

"The first thing a woman can do to raise a smart child is to breastfeed," says geneticist Ricki Lewis, author of The Forever ...

Trump's plan to reduce or shut it would hit NJ's poorest children, students with disabilities, & college students who receive federal grants and loans.

"We have students who circulate three books per day, and (others) who never check a book out in their whole four years," ...

In a measure of 37 developed countries, the U.S. scored above average in reading and science and below average, but not last, ...