The list is the result of a 2023 law that mandated the Texas Education Agency to compile a list of reading materials for each grade.

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A new study commissioned by the Advanced ...

Texas will soon become the first state to adopt a mandatory list of books that must be taught at each grade level in classrooms statewide. The Republican-controlled State Board of Education on ...

Students who are able to learn lessons taught in school plunge from an already low 30.5% in Grade 3 to just 0.40% in Grade 12 ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even one, according to data from YouGov and the National ...

The Texas Education Agency compiled a list of nearly 300 English and Spanish literary works that officials recommended students read in public schools, but the State Board of Education moved to table ...

Texas will soon become the first state to adopt a mandatory list of books that must be taught at each grade level in classrooms statewide. The Republican-controlled State Board of Education on ...