After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Lindsay Brooks stood at the front of her classroom last week and challenged her first grade students to not just sound out the word "play" written across the board, but to explain why its "A" was ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

A national non-profit says while children’s math scores are rebounding from pandemic lows, reading progress has stalled — ...

Story-tellers are success-builders, according to a group of Fox Chapel Area residents helping to battle the country’s ...

School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...

Summer reading programs are an integral part of library programming. Most libraries have them. These programs, once focused only on reading, encourage kids and teens to read, learn, and explore over ...

School's out and parents are looking for ways to help their kids avoid the summer brain drain. Research says children who read for pleasure and are motivated to read do significantly better at school ...

Waterford.org, a national leader in early childhood education, is deepening its commitment to North Dakota families through continued expansion of the Waterford Upstart program. According to Waterford ...

TIME. THAT IS THE MISSION OF UNITED WAY, CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION AND FORTUNE SCHOOLS, KINDERGARTEN READING PROGRAM. JOINING US TODAY TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED ...

KSHB 41 reporter Olivia Acree covers portions of Johnson County, Kansas. Share your story idea with Olivia. Libraries across the Kansas City metro are launching summer reading programs to help prevent ...