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 ...

Students have read and reviewed 6,562 books so far this school year, with December’s numbers still being tallied.

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

A literacy summit organized by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office hinted at a reconsideration of Republicans' school ...

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

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 ...

Some education experts believe that soon, even the most sophisticated stories and knowledge will be imparted mainly through ...

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

Michael Cormack felt like he’d been punched in the stomach. In May, Jackson Public Schools’ deputy superintendent was at his desk in the district’s central office, with the most recent third grade ...

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

To all those cynical adults who think dictionaries have gone the way of dinosaurs, replaced by omnipresent search engines: third graders across Lake County beg to differ.