There is much blaming and finger-pointing as to why the U.S. isn’t doing better. Some experts say that parents are allowing kids to spend too much time on screens, while others argue that elementary ...

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

The Rochester City School District launched a district-wide literacy campaign as its student literacy scores lag behind ...

Massachusetts House leaders plan to pass a bill this week that that would require school curriculums and teacher training be ...

The initiative, called “Level Up for Reading,” encourages everyone in the community to pause and read Monday morning. At ...

Last year, Michigan approved two new literacy laws aimed at districts using programs that are not aligned with what’s known ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler has written to Education Minister Lynne Neagle saying Wales' literacy panel has achieved next to nothing ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, Colorado Springs’ oldest school district, District 11, will be governed without a master contract tying the D-11 school board to the local affiliate of the ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific ...