It’s been over three years since Toby Price was fired from Gary Road Elementary School for reading a children’s book titled “I Need a New Butt” to a group of second graders.

As September is literacy month, the Heart of Missouri United Way is helping to promote children's literacy in Columbia.According to the National Center for Educ ...

During the pandemic, 12-year-old Asher Rosenfeld began reading books over Zoom for youth with special needs—and at 17, is ...

When I was teaching second grade, my favorite program to promote silent reading was D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read).

If you’ve ever had the sense that grades didn’t truly reflect what students had learned, formal and informal talks can give you more data and a more accurate picture.

First grade students at Park Magnet, an IB World School commemorated the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Thursday by ...

Each year at the state capitol, lawmakers work on legislation to improve educational outcomes in Oklahoma. A state senator ...

When the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the Nation’s Report Card, was released last year, the ...

A decadelong slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the covid-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative ...

The now-familiar tale of the middle grade market has many alarming plot strands, including declining sales, encroaching censorship, unstable school and library funding, and dips in children’s reading ...