While the world celebrated International Literacy Day, South Africa faced a harsh reality: 81% of Grade 4 learners can decode words but struggle to read for meaning. This literacy crisis threatens not ...

More of Michigan's youngest students are struggling with reading, according to statewide test results released Wednesday that show 61.1% of third graders and 57.6% of fourth graders did not pass the ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...

The Philippines is facing a deepening learning crisis as nearly 4.5 million Grade 1 to 3 learners remain unable to meet basic literacy standards, the Second Congressional Commission on Education ...

A sweeping new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 ...

There are thousands of students in Indiana who were in 3rd grade last school year and did not advance to the 4th grade this school year. The IREAD retention law now requires 3rd grade students to be ...

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...

More students in the District are reading on grade level than before the pandemic, according to test data shared Thursday. More than 37 percent of students scored proficient on standardized reading ...

It’s the first Nation’s Report Card since the Trump administration began making cuts to the U.S. Education Department. The ...