State lawmakers have a better grasp of how legislation passed in 2024 and 2025 are affecting reading instruction in the state ...

Jamilah Watson, a reading tutor with the program Reading Assist, works with a rising kindergartner at Stubbs Early Education Center in Wilmingon, Delaware. This was the first year that Reading Assist ...

Franklin College was awarded a grant focused on future elementary teachers and improving the literacy rate of Indiana’s elementary student population. Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded the institution a ...

The “science of reading” movement isn’t slowing down. Throughout 2025, Education Week has covered how states and districts are continuing to put new instructional methods and materials into practice, ...

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the ...

American students’ reading scores have stagnated for more than 30 years. What needs to change? Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

The Santa Barbara Reading Coalition will host a free community workshop, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24 in the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public ...

After years of stagnant reading scores in Wisconsin, some school districts are using federal pandemic aid to rethink their literacy instruction. Cudahy, a school district south of Milwaukee with about ...

In 2019, two-thirds of American fourth-graders scored below "proficient" in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, scores declined ...

New data and analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) show that while many states seek to improve literacy outcomes for students, they focus too little on a key component to strong ...

Pennsylvania schools are preparing for a major change in how children are taught to read. For the 2027-28 school year, all ...