Johnson County’s littlest residents are ready to learn. Medical research has shown that children have 90% of their brain development by the time they turn 5 years old. Those first five years are ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

NEWPORT, Ky. — Newport Independent Schools says only 20% of its children start kindergarten ready to learn and now city leaders are taking action with a new community-wide initiative aimed at changing ...

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.