Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their comprehension—though using AI for this purpose hasn’t been studied extensively.

HISD students' biology scores improved more than any other subject during state intervention. Ninth-grade students at NES ...

Books in Every Bag is a local nonprofit that encourages reading for young learners and provides books for children ages 5 and ...

Most kids use summer as an opportunity to take a break from school, relax and lay off the learning for a while. That might be a little counterintuitive, says the ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected a proposed amendment by the League of Women Voters, citing Act 602, which bans ballot titles above an 8th-grade level.

Of the 22 states with readability requirements for ballot measures, only Rhode Island and New York reference a specific reading level, and New York doesn't even have an initiative process.

Middle grade books are the linchpin of the industry, Bray says. “Most avid readers are created between the ages of eight and 12. Our whole industry should be invested in this reading cohort.” ...

Eighth grade reading scores were flat, but the percentage of eighth graders scoring at a “basic” level or better in math fell by seven percentage points.

The average reading score for high school seniors dropped between 2015 and 2019, while math scores for those soon-to-be-graduates remained flat, according to the latest round of national test ...

Additionally, kindergarten and second grade students who attended a "department-funded high-quality summer reading program or a Learning Beyond the Bell out-of-school program" also will receive books.