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.

New research suggests kissing may transfer oral bacteria that influence mental health, with depression and anxiety spreading between newlywed spouses.

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot reading instruction.

This will give us a really nice way to talk about where we are now in another way.” DIBELS measures basic reading skills, such as phonics and word recognition. EOGs focus more on comprehension.

State officials said Thursday that they expect the share of third graders who are held back to be much smaller than the 23% who scored at the lowest level on the reading test, called DIBELS.

The crisis has worsened, many professors say. Is it time to think differently?

Top Takeaways By June 30, California schools must choose one of four screening tests recommended by a state panel. Most other states already have a universal reading screening test for early grades, ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, according to a new study.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings.

The Literacy Hub at Lattie Coor School in Avondale engages both students and parents to improve reading. Test scores show the program is working.