Ready Readers volunteers visit classrooms in low-income communities to read aloud to young children, which can help build early literacy skills in preparation for kindergarten. Studies show that ...

An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

Supporting delayed readers requires a thoughtful and research-informed approach. These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their ...

HOLYOKE ― The state is giving Holyoke Public Schools a grant to focus on developing literacy among students in the early grades. Holyoke Schools received a $20,598 grant through a program that aims to ...

For years, North Carolina’s quest to improve reading skills focused on the kids who were falling behind. In 2021, attention shifted to the teachers who couldn’t increase reading proficiency, with the ...

TEWKSBURY — Gov. Maura Healey and state education officials visited Tewksbury Tuesday morning to celebrate a $25 million investment in a no-cost early literacy tutoring program for 272 elementary ...

Kids in Massachusetts, and nationwide, are behind on reading. In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of this year, Gov. Maura Healey proposed a $30 million investment over five ...

The House will vote Wednesday on a sweeping early literacy reform bill, aiming to reverse what leaders are calling “troubling trends” in student reading rates. “In Massachusetts, we have school ...

MPS leaders are switching literacy curriculum midyear to better align with the "science of reading" and the state's literacy ...

With school back in session for more than 900,000 students in Massachusetts, WAMC spoke with state Education Secretary Dr. Patrick Tutwiler about the new year, a slate of grants and programs aimed at ...

In Alicia Comeau’s kindergarten classroom at Holcomb Elementary School in Oregon City, a book is far from the only way to learn how to read. During a recent circle time, Comeau looked out into an ...

To help more of Arizona’s youngest students develop the literacy skills they need to be proficient readers and successful in school, partners in Read On Arizona, our state’s early literacy initiative, ...