The United States has witnessed a disturbing trend in recent years: a decline in literacy rates. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — To hear him read a book now, you’d never guess rising 4th grader Neal Dean Gilland used to struggle to finish a page. He started kindergarten during the pandemic and paired with his ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Nineteen percent of third graders in Newark passed a literacy test last year. For all grade levels, the passing rate was 27%. In some schools, officials say the percentage ...

As nightstand "To Be Read" piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming threat to the ...

Books Are Wings, a Rhode Island nonprofit, aims to provide free books to children in under-resourced communities. They distribute books through partnerships with schools and community centers and ...

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The state’s top senator said Tuesday that a literacy test for voters “ought to be out of our constitution” and he’s ready to remove it. It’s not the first time that state lawmakers have wanted to ...