Newly released data from state assessments show just half of Illinois public school students could read at grade level and ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

OTTUMWA, Iowa (KYOU) - The Ottumwa school district is one of 28 across the state that received state funding to improve literacy. District wide about 61-percent of students are proficient in English ...