Even in Massachusetts, a state known for its advanced public education system, students lag behind in reading comprehension. In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of this year, Gov ...

Research shows that reading successfully by the end of third grade is a significant predictor of longer-term school success. And, early reading difficulties lead to long-term consequences, such as ...

Cumberland Valley School District educators identified a problem when students in the upper elementary grades struggled to read books that had complex words and no pictures. Many entered school with ...

Colquitt County is rewriting the story of early literacy through strong community partnerships and the Archway Partnership.

The app is built around a unique 6-way multisensory learning approach, designed to help children connect letters, sounds, and mouth movements—key to unlocking strong early literacy skills. Dr. Conway, ...

HELENA, Mont. — Public school districts throughout Montana are preparing to retool their approaches to early childhood education this spring, as state education officials move closer to implementing a ...

PENDLETON — The Pendleton Public Library has received $1.2 million from the Oregon Department of Education’s Early Literacy Community Grant program, becoming the only library in the state to earn the ...

MANKATO — The Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation awarded 34,639 children’s books to 73 organizations through its Early Literacy Grant Program, increasing the annual distribution by 15,000 books.

For Eileen Pewterbaugh, her new raise is the difference between just being able to pay bills and being able to save for her son’s future. Pewterbaugh is a part-time early literacy tutor in Virginia ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Bozeman Public Schools plans to offer new early childhood programming this summer to help kids ...

Oregon school districts are making plans to spend millions of dollars in new funding aimed at overhauling the way the state’s youngest learners are taught to read, but some early literacy advocates ...