The proposed state budget includes $600 million to tackle Michigan's low reading readiness levels. Some say it should include more for the youngest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student reads a book in a New York City library in 2022. Since 2021, more than a dozen states have explicitly banned a ...

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

There are thousands of students in Indiana who were in 3rd grade last school year and did not advance to the 4th grade this school year. The IREAD retention law now requires 3rd grade students to be ...

In a state where three out of every five fourth graders are not reading at grade level, Michigan’s policymakers and powerbrokers are on track to take a year off from trying to tackle this crisis at ...