Indiana’s Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD) assessment was first implemented in the 2012-13 school year to address ...

Just five years ago, Oliver James couldn’t read. This week, he became a published author. For 32 years of his life, the personal trainer was functionally illiterate. He was branded a troublemaker in ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...

The vast majority of students who graduated high school while detained in California’s juvenile facilities in a five-year span between 2018 and 2023 did not pass a 12th grade reading assessment. In ...

In Milwaukee, only 9% of fourth grade students meet grade level expectations for reading. That’s based on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress exam results, which show that ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

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