Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" ...

The top schools got money to put toward reading efforts at the school, new basketballs and new shoes for students.

Literacy is fundamental in determining a child’s educational success and academic future. And when young students are lacking their “ABC” skills, it’s all but certain they will struggle with other ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

Escambia County Public Schools third graders who will not move up to fourth grade in the fall will have the opportunity to remedy that in June. The Escambia County School Board approved the Elementary ...