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Vittal Krishnamurthy, a 13-year-old eighth grader who attends Meadow Park Middle School, said the itch for words started ...

Atlanta News First investigation ‘Reading Reset’ identifies potential causes, solutions to Georgia’s poor literacy rates.

TalentFirst partners with West Michigan K-12 and teaching-college leaders to work together to solve an early literacy crisis.

As lawmakers debate whether transgender athletes can play sports, they’re missing a more widespread education issue — low ...

Nobody answers the phones in Sarasota's overstretched medical facilities, and appointments have to be booked months in ...

Political and media blather about the potential demise of the Department of Education (DE) is continuous. Lacking empathy and ...

Early literacy forms the foundation on which a child’s academic and life success is built. Extensive research shows that ...

The race to lead the state education department pits the teachers union-backed incumbent, Jill Underly, against consultant ...

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...

I can’t read.” When Sarah, a vivacious, animal-loving third grader, said this to me, my heart sank. Sarah struggled to read the books she loved about horses and wolves and ...