With literacy rates at a crisis level in Massachusetts schools, some want to change how students are being taught to read.

The results showed just 31% of the state’s fourth graders were proficient in reading compared to 33% in 2022 and 36% in 2019. Black fourth grade students fared the worst in the country with 8% ...

It’s the same curriculum adopted last year by the Richland School District. Pasco School District in 2022-23 adopted the American Reading Company ’s Core, which is “informed” by science of reading ...

South Dakota Eighth-grade reading: Florida, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Delaware, Nebraska For urban districts, Atlanta saw a significant increase in both 4th-grade reading and math ...

Louisiana's state schools chief discusses the importance of reading and math instruction and "letting teachers teach." ...

Other states have taken a very different approach – they have created comprehensive state-level reading plans to change their education system. And they’ve gotten results. By 2019, Mississippi was in ...

But there's a movement growing to turn all this around. It's through an organization called At Grade Level, starting with a ...

Science of reading is a broad term that refers to a ... visuals or sentence structure to guess at a word’s meaning. Jilian Alfaro, a 4th grade teacher at Sage Crest Elementary, says it enhanced ...