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 ...

Virginia has made reading by third grade a priority. Now it is time to make it a top priority. Our state has one of the most ...

Natasha Davis has always encouraged her daughters to read. So she was delighted when Nilah, a third grader at King Elementary ...

Georgia education officials are studying Mississippi’s dramatic literacy transformation as 70$ of the Peach State’s ...

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I’ve taken you down this twisted memory lane tale to say reading books (whether pages or on a screen) is an awesome gift to give a young person, and not just at the holidays. This is an everyday ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

From an amateur sleuth with a limb difference, to a nonverbal boy with a superhero alter ego, the characters in these books ...

After Mississippi students climbed from 49th to ninth nationally in literacy, some Oklahoma lawmakers want to replicate Mississippi's strategy.

The Book Truck, a mobile library set up in a van, has been traveling since 2021 to bring books to children living in villages ...

States across the country are now looking to Mississippi for answers as they work to address ongoing literacy ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...