An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

Big literacy gains for Brockton's youngest readers, with third graders leading the charge. Check out the numbers.

New data shows 87.3% of Hoosier third graders demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD exam in 2024-25. (Getty Images) Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest ...

The proposal is part of the Nebraska governor's education focus this legislative session, and it has federal support.

One Utah school is being held up as an example for dramatically moving the needle with its students' reading scores: Mona Elementary in the small, rural town by the same name. Here's what they did.

TULSA, Okla. — More than a decade after Oklahoma lawmakers voted to stop holding back third-grade students who couldn’t read at grade level, the debate is back at the State Capitol, driven by ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Indiana third graders’ reading proficiency improved at a record-breaking rate in 2025, putting students’ scores on par with pre-pandemic levels. Statewide, 87.3% of third graders scored proficient on ...

LEADER KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT TEN. NEBRASKA CHILDREN MAY SEE A CHANGE IN THEIR READING GOALS. GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN IS PROPOSING A NEW THIRD GRADE READING BILL. GOOD EVENING. I’M JULIE CORNELL. I’M ...

Oklahoma lawmakers will consider a return to holding back 3rd graders who aren't reading at grade level.The proposal is part ...

After overhauling literacy policy in 2013, Mississippi went from 49th to a top 10 state in fourth-grade reading. It’s been dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” but those involved say it was more of a ...

Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest year-to-year improvement since the state began IREAD testing in 2013, rising nearly five percentage points from last year, according to ...