It took less than 24 hours for Texas Republicans to put down their champagne glasses and pick up the spears they had spent much of the year pointing at each other. The intra-party truce ceased almost ...

Mississippi’s Literacy-Based Promotion Act requires third graders to achieve a passing score of Level 3 or higher on the reading portion of the state’s ELA assessment to qualify for promotion to ...

The balanced literacy method has been widely used over the last few decades, yet hasn’t been particularly successful: Recent national reading assessments show that only about 35% of the nation ...

“First grade is typically the year where students build on and consolidate cognitive skills,” Sara Leman, a literacy specialist at Reading Eggs, an online reading program, wrote in an emai ...