With 67 percent of 4th graders reading below grade level, schools need early literacy interventions that work at scale. A study recently released by the Center for Research and Reform in Education at ...

“Reading is the foundation of our education system, but New York State is currently not meeting basic reading proficiency levels,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said just ahead of her 2024 State of the State ...

Students’ reading achievement in both 4th and 8th grades fell three points during the pandemic, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. The decline put the nation’s students roughly ...

In 2016, Delaware’s Seaford School District adopted the aptly titled Bookworms curriculum, an open access literacy program for students in kindergarten through grade 5 developed by University of ...

Prior to the pandemic, reading achievement had been showing little to no growth in the National Assessment of Educational Progress data. Scores have continued to decline, in part because of ...

Two strong policy shifts: holding individual schools accountable for student performance, and changing how reading is taught ...

This first appeared in James Farrell's weekly education newsletter. Sign up here to get it to your inbox first. I’ve spent the last several weeks diving deeply into the complicated world of literacy — ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Announcing the 2025 student achievement results at the Alexander Science Center School ...

Do special education services increase the reading achievement of students with speech or language impairments (SLI) or learning disabilities (LD)? Results from our new study suggest this can be the ...

Peoples Bank has donated $100,000 for a financial literacy program through Junior Achievement. From left: Katie Bailey, Peoples Bank CFO; Chuck Sulerzyski, Peoples Bank president and CEO; Lori ...