Like many districts, the Marietta school district in Georgia has spent the past five years focused on improving literacy achievement for its youngest students, intent on making sure kids leave ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Every March since 1998, the National Education Association has used its Read Across America initiative to promote literacy and encourage a love of reading among children. It’s a wonderful program that ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

A student exits a school bus as they arrive to Creative Arts Secondary School on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Saint Paul, Minn. (Ellen Schmidt/Minnesota Reformer) The share of Minnesota eighth graders ...

The pandemic jostled students off course, disrupting learning around the country. Billions in federal relief dollars later and rigorous assessments show that students are still struggling to recover.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of ...

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of the best gauges of the academic progress of the U.S. school system. The ...