Reading scores for Erie third-graders are improving. And that's good news for their future prospects in school and beyond. Third grade is a kind of watershed year in education. Through third grade, ...

Timothy Tinker was a book I remember reading over and over as a child. Timothy had an oilcan, which most children today would not even recognize. Timothy went around his home and neighborhood adding a ...

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Reading scores for Sioux Falls students seemed like a call to action for school board member Doug Morrison. Two years ago, Sioux Falls School District educators set an ambitious goal of having every ...

But adapting a state’s reading law for older students isn’t as simple as changing existing language from “K-3" to “K-8,” said ...

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 ...

There is accumulating correlational evidence that the effect of specific types of reading instruction depends on children's initial language and literacy skills, called child characteristics × ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A proposed literacy policy in Maryland could ...