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Employees say administration grows while staff resources for special ed shrink

We cannot support and empower adolescent readers when their only choices for practice are juvenile stories like "Hop on Pop."

If the United States is to remain an innovation powerhouse, it must radically target deficiencies in public education. 

One of the posted rules for middle schoolers using the library at Franklin STEAM school in Minneapolis this year is an encouraging directive: "There is a book for you — find it." And the students have. More than 1,500 titles have been checked out so far this school year, representing a four-fold jump over the number of books that left the shelf by this time last school year. "As much as I want ...

California is rife with children who can barely read, but now all students have to learn “media literacy.”

The change won’t happen overnight.

Reading proficiency in students across the nation and globe is shockingly low, and it’s an underlying issue that needs to be addressed.

Maryland public schools Interim State Superintendent Carey Wright testifies before House Ways and Means Committee with updates on education.

All Maryland public schools will emphasize phonics and vocabulary when teaching kids to read starting next year, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

The ranking was done by Teach Simple, an education resource website.