State lawmakers have passed a slate of comprehensive reading bills in recent years that aim to align schools’ teaching, curricula, and professional development with research on key foundational ...

A Missouri law adopted in 2022 requires that all public school elementary students get reading instruction that has proved “highly likely to be effective" (Getty Images). If you drop into an ...

With more than half of the state’s third-graders failing to meet reading benchmarks, education stakeholders across the state agree that existing strategies must change in order to boost student scores ...

After Mississippi students climbed from 49th to ninth nationally in literacy, some Oklahoma lawmakers want to replicate Mississippi’s strategy.

If you’re looking to see if the reading education reform law that passed in Wisconsin in 2023 is having any effect, don’t look so much to state government, where disputes and delays have meant there’s ...

I’m fed up with partisanship, polarization and power maneuvers in the state Capitol that put adults and politics first and kids last. There have been many episodes of this unfortunate soap opera over ...

This story was updated to include comments from a press conference held by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of Assembly Bill ...

A panel of reading experts has designated the tests that school districts can use to identify reading difficulties that kindergartners through second graders may have, starting next fall. Gov. Gavin ...

A veteran legislator who taught elementary school for 16 years introduced comprehensive early-literacy legislation Wednesday that would impose requirements on reading instruction and add urgency to ...

One of the most fundamental skills students learn in school is still at the forefront of the national education conversation—how kids learn to read. The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in ...