In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as ...

A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words.

When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in ...

Sciotoville Elementary Academy has been recognized as one of 109 schools across the state to receive the 2026 Governor’s ...

Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time.

On Monday, the Heber Valley Railroad will be hosting a “reading railroad” train, with every penny of proceeds going toward the Heber Valley Rotary Club's first grade reading program, which has helped ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are debating a bill to retain struggling third-grade readers, aiming to boost the state's low literacy scores.

Kindergarten teachers at East Oakview took part in a “learning lab” to observe how their colleagues teach new phonics lessons.

Fulton County’s literacy coaches helped raise reading scores, offering a model as Georgia considers placing a coach in every ...

The best kindergarten classrooms have an almost magical feel to them, Kara Ledford’s students at Saddle Ridge have seen their room morph into a scene from Swiss Family Robinson complete with a beach ...