The 2019 Alabama Literacy Act requires students reading on grade level by the end of third grade. Students who fall short on the test and don’t meet an alternative requirement can be held back.

MSCS improved third-grade reading proficiency by almost 4% between 2023 and 2024. The second week of Memphis-Shelby County Schools' Summer Learning Academy wraps up June 13.

“Color Our World” is this summer’s library summer reading challenge theme. Reading encourages a vibrant imagination, so this summer become immersed in the colorful worlds of books. Avon-Washington ...

The 2025 Summer Reading Challenge from second lady Usha Vance encourages children to read, aiming to improve kids' literacy rates as well as their emotional well-being. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

2.6.25 The Pope: Your skills and experience are in demand, meaning you could be put in a teaching role or be required to act as a coach or mentor. You're ideally placed to share your knowledge and ...

More than 4,000 third graders are enrolled in summer programming at MNPS as the effects of the state reading law unfold. Promising Scholars, the MNPS summer program, runs from May 29-June 27.

Philip Mulroe, 8, has a goal of reading 3 million words by the end of third grade, starting this summer. It follows up his successful goals of reading 1 million words as a first-grader and 2 ...

Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.

To facilitate the process, Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central), called for the suspension of Senate Standing Order 78(1), allowing the bill to scale second reading on the ...

According to the NAEP, Michigan ranked 44th in the nation for fourth-grade reading and 31st for eighth-grade math in 2024. The NAEP uses scale scores to report student performance. They range from ...

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 ...

The House of Representatives at the plenary on Wednesday passed through second reading a Bill seeking to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as ...