The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Once again this summer, I am happy to be joining my colleagues in the State Senate, in partnership with ...

The underdog Pacers stole Game 1 of the NBA Finals, stunning the Thunder 111-110 on Thursday night in Oklahoma City. Let’s get to the grades. Pre-order book on the Thunder's journey to the NBA Finals ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

During former state Sen. Bill Eigel’s run for governor last year, he told KMIZ, an ABC affiliate serving mid-Missouri, that “less than a third of our children are able to do reading, writing ...

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.

Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.

I’m currently reading Wool by Hugh Howey, the first book in the Silo Series (a three-part series). It’s post-apocalyptic science fiction about a community living in a giant underground silo.

Students in grades three through eight, on average, performed 40% of grade level behind in math and three-quarters in reading since 2019 and before COVID. The state was among the bottom 10 states ...

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

Fort Worth ISD is making literacy instruction goal No. 1 since only about a third of its students read at grade level. The district’s new superintendent, Karen Molinar, declared in March that ...

National data shows the average Maryland eighth grader is below proficiency in math and reading, scoring a 258 out of 500 in reading last year and a 268 in math. That’s according to the National ...

The Attorney General shall not certify a proposed ballot title with a reading level above eighth grade as determined by the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test as it existed on January 1, 2025 ...