Howard’s students at Greenville Elementary School were calculating remainders in division problems on worksheets, and Howard ...

As the school year moves forward, state legislators around the country are increasingly talking about holding students back.

An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

Michigan spent $1 billion on literacy efforts but saw reading scores decline, while Mississippi improved dramatically with less spending and more accountability. What went wrong in Michigan?

Lawmakers sought to make Michigan a top 10 state for fourth grade reading proficiency. Their initiatives haven't come close to achieving the goal.

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle.

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a ...

Roughly two dozen grade school students from around the area spent their Winter Break this week learning the STEM fields at ...

Parents, grandparents and community advocates have driven educational change before. That leadership is needed again.

SB241 would allow schools to hold back third graders who can't read at grade level. But it would also introduce more reading tests for younger students — and new supports. Here's everything that would ...

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will propose a $625 million infusion of state funding into literacy efforts in her final ...

For example, in Greenwood’s Grade 12 kinesiology program, students not only learn skills in the classroom, but design a rehab program for a specific injury and then present their program to real ...