Mississippi has attributed success to passing the Literacy- Based Promotion Act in 2013, a law that using phonics and early screening to help struggling children. The LBPA required students to score ...

Florida state lawmakers began mandating science-based literacy education in the early 2000s. It improved reading proficiency among early grades and cemented Florida as a leader in early literacy ...

The better students can read, the better they can learn. That's why when teachers and administration at Woonsocket Elementary School saw their student reading scores were not where they wanted them to ...

That’s why when teachers and administration at Woonsocket Elementary School ... of South Dakota, is a reading intervention program that begins with an assessment to evaluate all students in ...

The elementary and middle school rankings are based almost exclusively on state assessments, and student-teacher ratios are applied to break ties in the overall score. The mathematics and reading ...

The Texas board of education voted today to advance a controversial new curriculum that includes Bible stories in elementary ... of background knowledge in reading comprehension.

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The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

Like many informational texts, it presented a unique topic, unlikely to have been directly taught in the primary school curriculum. This approach is common in general reading comprehension assessments ...