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 ...

Massachusetts secures a $10M federal grant for early literacy tutoring as part of a broader educational initiative.

Lauren Hill, a first-grade teacher at Happy Valley Elementary School, is usually the one fielding questions from her students. But on Monday, during an early literacy training session for all ...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- As part of her ongoing efforts to boost literacy rates across Oregon, Governor Tina Kotek announced Thursday she will form a council to develop recommendations to raise the bar ...

Are you getting everything you could from your early literacy data? Too often, early literacy results can flag which students are struggling, but don’t reveal the “why” or point to the way forward.

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 ...

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 ...

Ryan Holt is the State Board of Education Member for the Fifth Congressional District of Tennessee. There’s no doubt that reading well by third grade is vital to a student’s future success. In fact, a ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Third-grade literacy rates saw the biggest jump in the state’s history of the IREAD assessment. It’s also the fourth year in a row rates climbed. This year’s numbers show Indiana ...