For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

State legislators who represent Hancock County, shown at a Hancock County Chamber of Commerce breakfast in March, applauded recent IREAD scores. Pictured from left are Rep. Cory Criswell, R-Middletown ...

In this article, we will look at the 20 countries with the highest literacy rate in the world. If you wish to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to 5 Countries with the Highest Literacy ...

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 ...