A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

One hundred eighty-five pages. That’s the length of Culver City Unified School District’s LCAP — our Local Control Accountability Plan. Graphs, numbers, charts, data. I flip through the pages, ...

SOUTH BEND — Local advocacy group We Make Indiana is addressing the third grade reading crisis in South Bend, recruiting community members to become high-impact tutors to get students ready for their ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Across Ohio, school districts are promoting thousands of third graders who didn’t meet state reading benchmarks, placing unprecedented demands on limited resources for reading ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Leaders at Pittsburgh Public Schools are putting their weight behind improving third-grade reading scores — an ...

Once upon a time, children read books. In the corners of classrooms and libraries students got lost in books. However, there has been a dramatic shift in the system and books are no longer the center ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the amount of training required to become a tutor in the program. The ...