Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

New data shows 87.3% of Hoosier third graders demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD exam in 2024-25. (Getty Images) Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

More than 1 in 4 Louisiana third graders scored far below state targets on a reading test this fall, according to newly released data. Now, schools have until the spring to catch those students up or ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

Dayle Burns is the wife of House Speaker Jon Burns, and she admits she gives him a nudge every now and again, especially when ...

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...

Setting high expectations for reading is not a problem, but labeling only students meeting those high expectations as ...

Just over half of the third graders in Jackson Public Schools are reading on grade level, according to test results released last week by the Mississippi Department of Education. At some elementary ...

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