Oklahoma lawmakers are debating a bill to retain struggling third-grade readers, aiming to boost the state's low literacy scores.

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Everywhere House Speaker Kyle Hilbert goes, the topic of childhood literacy follows. Hilbert, R-Bristow, said ...

Story School coaches parents aiming to close the gap before kids ever set foot in a classroom.

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

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

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...

Improving early literacy remains a central focus as recent drops in reading scores across the state have educators at the ...

Now in her 26th year of teaching, Michelle Campbell's goal for her first graders is to keep reading and learning.

Despite warnings from early childhood experts against too much screen time, schools' reliance on educational technology for ...

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...

Chromebooks and iPads are untouched in classrooms at a rural elementary school in northern Michigan. School leaders hope that ...