4 takeaways from Maryland school board meeting on literacy, test scores, cellphones, pre-K
With the school year underway, the Maryland State Board of Education is met with questions about literacy plans, ...
Rick Magee (opinion): 'Reading a book, whether it’s Vonnegut or Sendak, does not create monsters'
To mark Banned Books Week, columnist Rick Magee reflects on being allowed to read whatever he wanted 'in the semi-feral 1979s ...
4 Ways to Help Middle Schoolers Recover from COVID Learning Losses in Reading
Imagine waking up for the first day of middle school and discovering you’ve already missed class — for more than half the ...
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Science of reading bills to move forward for a vote in the Michigan House of Representatives
After state test results showed poor proficiency in third grade reading last year, legislators pushed forward bills that ...
New Mexico's reading crisis deserves an urgent response
New Mexicans know that reducing class size is worth the effort. A 2023 poll of likely voters conducted by University of New ...
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OPINION: Smaller K-3 class sizes are an urgent response to the reading crisis
Lauren Garcia, a second grade teacher at Osuna Elementary School, talks in her classroom during an interview in August. Think ...
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The right reading crisis response: Smaller K-3 classes
In 2022, 79% of New Mexico fourth graders could not read proficiently, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. New Mexico’s fourth grade cohort has never reached ...
Is literacy a civil right? Poor reading skills threaten democracy, individual progress| Opinion
Illiteracy creates a wall separating the powerful from the powerless and the hopeful from the hopeless. The wall is not along ...
Alabama State BOE discusses increasing reading cut score for 3rd graders
The Alabama State Board of Education discussed options to increase the cut score for the reading portion of the Alabama ...
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Registration open for 'Tundra Tales' reading program
Registration is now open for the Green Bay Packers 15th annual "Tundra Tales" at-home reading program for students in grades ...
OUSD Expands Partnership With Hoot Reading for High-Dosage Tutoring Program
Hoot Reading and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) launched a pilot program in 2024 with two other tutoring providers as part of the Strong Readers Initiative. The goal was to address one of the ...