Arkansans sign petitions in support of proposed ballot initiatives in Little Rock on July 2, 2024. (Mary Hennigan/Arkansas Advocate) A proposed constitutional amendment aimed at protecting direct ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the ...

Nearly 5,000 Alabama third graders are at risk of being held back a year because they are not reading well enough, according to preliminary data released by state education officials Friday. State ...

Concern over a new requirement that third graders read at grade-level to move on to fourth grade has created a "sense of urgency" in at least one north Arkansas elementary school, faculty said. That ...

The Foundations School integrates the arts into their curriculum and hyper focused on reading proficiency, especially around third grade. That’s when, they say, students make the important switch from ...

Everywhere House Speaker Kyle Hilbert goes, the topic of childhood literacy follows. Hilbert, R-Bristow, said improving Oklahoma’s elementary reading scores is “top of the agenda for ...