After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

ELDRIDGE, Iowa (KWQC) - The Scott County Library System has launched a new and improved Learn to Read program based on the science of reading, offering families free resources to help children develop ...

Eliana Villanueva and Houston Mills were beaming about their "graduation" in the new literacy program at McCornack Elementary. The second graders recently advanced to a higher-level reading group ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

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