Over the next few weeks, students across Alabama will take standardized tests in English language arts, math and science. Students aren’t graded on their results, but it is especially important for ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

Students will practice asking & answering questions about a text to build comprehension. Students will practice asking and answering questions about a text to build their comprehension. Students will ...

For many adults, reading is a fact of life often taken for granted. For them, there’s usually a great distance between learning to read and being a reader, but for young students, reading ...

SUNRIVER — At the start of reading time last Monday, third-graders in Rebecca Fender’s class at Three Rivers School got a handout that told them: the genre they’d read that week (poetry), the ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is sounding the alarm about how remote learning may affect students long-term. McCrory, who’s running for U.S. Senate, talked about third-grade reading scores on ...

For years, we have known that children who read at grade level by 3rd grade are more likely to graduate from high school. High school graduates, in turn, are more likely to pursue further education ...

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Data released by the Alabama Department of Education showed a larger number of students scoring "sufficient" despite a ...

Districts across Mississippi may be dismissing for summer break this week, but it’s crunch time for thousands of third-graders who failed the state’s literacy promotion exam. The state Department of ...