Renaissance Learning’s annual look at what students are reading yields two sobering findings about adolescents’ choices when they’re choosing supplemental, or “outside,” reading: High school students ...
A FEW MONTHS ago, we considered reading by 9 months. How about reading by 19 years? That’s the daunting task facing middle and high school teachers who increasingly encounter illiterate teen-agers. It ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan House has approved a repeal for a third grade reading retention law. A portion of the state’s third grade reading law, which was passed in 2016, requires ...
Latest reading assessments showed that most of Hopwood Junior High School students have improved significantly within one year but the fact remains that most of them read below their grade level.
SAGINAW, MI—School is back in session and many students are back in classrooms. Many of them, though, may have more of an uphill battle than others according to data released by the State of Michigan.
Just under half of Louisiana’s third graders ended last school year reading below or significantly below grade level, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Education. The ...
BATON ROUGE, La. - The number of third-graders with major reading problems has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic, just the latest red flag in Louisiana's uphill fight to improve its ...
ROANOKE, Va. – A new initiative in Roanoke is working to improve learning by getting kids excited about reading. On Tuesday, the Williamson Road Library kicked off the “Read and Ready” campaign.
The student, who Halperin refers to pseudonymously as “Tom,” is enrolled in Everest’s two-year, $45,000 criminal justice program. After the librarian, Laurie McConnell, began trying to help Tom with ...
It’s been a year since new initiatives got underway to help ensure Utah third graders are reading on grade level — and state officials are pointing to small gains. Lawmakers allocated $18.5 million, a ...