Local school superintendents say the remedy for improving reading skills is a strong pre-K statewide program, not retaining students in third grade. Senate Bill 1, which addresses childhood literacy, ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." ...

Garrett Ferby was the only member of his family who hadn’t graduated from high school and attended college. The 22-year-old had been, as he put it, “a bit of a knucklehead” as a teenager, which had ...

The Statewide Children’s Literacy Program would mail age-appropriate books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of ...

Upon reading Will Sentell's Oct. 3 piece on our state's low literacy rates in lower elementary schools, I was appalled to learn that more than half of students K-3 are reading below grade level.

This study will synthesize the behavioral and cognitive sciences, education, and neuroscience research on literacy to understand its applicability to adolescent and adult populations. It will review ...