Shani Page was 16 when she dropped out of high school. “My grades were bad,” she said. “My attendance was bad. The teachers ain’t have no faith in me. So ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

DISD saw gains in the percentage of students meeting grade-level expectations, and these achievements should be celebrated.

No Alabama school district had all of their third or second graders reading on grade level in 2022-23, a basic indicator for student success in future grades.

Second graders fared similarly with 46 percent reading on grade level, a four percentage loss from pre-COVID times. Third graders remained stagnant at 46 percent.

A middle-school teacher shared that his eighth-grade class purposefully dropped their reading level to second grade in order to get easier lessons. Unfortunately, while there are "no real ...