The Alabama Board of Education is set to raise expectations for third graders by gradually increasing a benchmark on the state’s high-stakes reading test. Currently, educators decide whether or not a ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense, but experts say much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t, as Forbes reported. Classrooms across ...

Some Alabama school districts made big gains on the state’s third grade reading test, even as expectations grew tougher, but local districts generally saw a slight drop in the percentage of third ...

A student in Muncie, Ind., receives live virtual tutoring from Reading Futures. Forty percent of fourth graders and 33 percent of eighth graders in the U.S. did not meet benchmarks for basic reading ...