In schools across the country, about one-third of students are behind grade level in reading. Even in Massachusetts, which consistently ranks at the top of various education metrics, this crisis ...

Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s fourth-graders are reading at grade level. The numbers are even more alarming for Black and Hispanic students in the state.

There were more fifth graders in Arlington Public Schools who needed intensive reading support at the end of the last school year than at the beginning, according to county data, a troubling trend ...

Editor's Note: Corrections were made to this story on Sept. 29. Two elementary schools in the Mechanicsburg Area School District did not make state targets in fifth-grade reading in 2010-11, leaving ...

San Antonio elementary and middle school students outperformed the high schoolers on this year’s STAAR test, with major gains in reading and science — but lagging math and social studies scores signal ...

The share of Houston ISD's third through eighth grade students who met grade level in every State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam subject improved or stayed flat when compared to the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s ...