The Mitchell Community Public Library is inviting families to participate in 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, an ongoing ...

Although most of them were still in diapers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, today’s early elementary students didn’t make it through the global catastrophe unscathed. A new analysis from NWEA, an ...

Local billionaires who plan to donate nearly all of their wealth to philanthropic causes have just given another $55 million ...

New data shows early‑grade reading remains below pre‑pandemic levels, with first‑ and second‑graders lagging as math rises.

When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in ...

Dr. Sara Bode (far right) high fives Juri Sleet, 4, after she and Crystal Webb, a kindergarten readiness coordinator, talk with Sleet's grandmother, Quintina Davis (left), about the literacy screening ...

Oklahoma experienced some of the steepest budget cuts to education in the nation and an exodus of tens of thousands of ...

An Ohio hospital is screening young kids for literacy during checkups, helping them build reading skills before they ever ...

A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.

New research shows students who were not school age during the COVID-19 pandemic are struggling to catch up in reading ...

The UFLI reading curriculum is already used in McLean County school districts, including District 87 and Heyworth.

Literacy screenings are not typically conducted in medical settings ...