The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
EdSurge

Students Are Reading Slower and Comprehending Less. Here’s What To Do About It.

In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. The pre-K-12 district serves 4000 kids, and that year a new state law requiring that all high school juniors take the ACT ...
The Conversation

Concerned about your early reader? Why ‘wait and see’ isn’t advised for reading struggles

Katelyn Bryant works for the Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic at Western University. The research study on which she is co-author was partially funded by a Natural Sciences and ...
Education Week

Third Grade Reading Retention Is Back. Should It Be?

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...
PBS

Kids' reading scores have soared in Mississippi 'miracle'

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's a cliché that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: "Thank God for Mississippi." As the state's literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their ...