This post was updated Oct. 7 at 11:00 p.m. Students today face barriers to achieving literacy, affecting both their professional and personal development. In the 2023-2024 school year, the LA School ...

With concerns rising about lagging childhood literacy rates across the country, Nationwide Children’s Hospital has begun ...

The School District of Manatee County is trying to improve early literacy with a new learning lab, but a charter school company wants to take space in the building. The Soar Lab, which opened last ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Delaware’s troubling 45th ranking in literacy rates underscores a nationwide issue, ...

When black enslaved ancestors were freed, they moved quickly to prioritize literacy. Why? Because everyone and their mothers knew reading held bedrock status as being the foundation of learning.

A state law taking effect in 2026 is aimed at addressing literacy in students. AB 1454 requires the state education board to adopt instructional materials for grades kindergarten through eight in ...

Approximately two out of every five students in the United States cannot read at a basic level. Literacy rates have been declining for more than a decade, but since the COVID-19 pandemic those rates ...

(KRON) — The San Francisco Unified District comes with good news. Since the adoption of a new initiative, “Each and Every by Name” earlier this year, San Francisco schools are achieving and even ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s third-grade literacy rates increased by nearly five percentage points from 2024 to 2025, reaching 87.3% proficiency on the Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination ...

There is a systemic decoupling of educational certification from functional competence in South Africa (SA), specifically critiquing the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) results. Drawing on two ...