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Colorado
Colorado has spent hundreds of millions to help kids read. Now, it will spend up to $5.2 million to find out why it’s not working.
By Ann Schimke
November 20, 2019
Colorado
Find your 2019 Colorado CMAS scores — and compare schools
By Ann Schimke, Sam Park
August 15, 2019
Cornerstone Prep teacher Dorian Lloyd helps rising first-grader Nykari McNeal, 5, sound out his new favorite word Tennessee
Tennessee’s summer reading camps are popular, getting results — and in peril
By Kathryn Palmer, Marta W. Aldrich
July 2, 2019

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Newark Reads Newark
Newark launches ‘Mayor’s Book Club’ in effort to promote reading among young people
By Devna Bose, Patrick Wall
June 4, 2019
Detroit
State board member: Michigan should side with Detroit students in ‘right to literacy’ lawsuit
By Lori Higgins
May 28, 2019
Colorado
Colorado literacy bill mandating more teacher training advances
By Erica Meltzer
April 11, 2019
Colorado
Concerned about reading instruction, state cracks down on teacher prep programs, starting with Colorado’s largest
By Ann Schimke
March 14, 2019
Chicago
To help boost low reading scores, Chicago will launch massive book giveaway
By Adeshina Emmanuel
February 5, 2019
Chicago
I’m a Chicago teacher who has watched many Javions fall through the cracks. Here’s what would help.
By Gina Caneva
January 4, 2019
Tennessee
McQueen ends her Tennessee tenure the same way she started — focused on reading
By Marta W. Aldrich
December 17, 2018
Chicago
Chicago schools don’t have a plan for teenagers who struggle to read
By Adeshina Emmanuel
December 14, 2018
Chicago
How it feels to be Javion: 16 and struggling to read in Chicago Public Schools
By Adeshina Emmanuel
December 11, 2018
Colorado
Aurora is rolling out new curriculum to catch up with how teachers teach writing
By Yesenia Robles
September 19, 2018
Tennessee
Summer camps lift reading skills for third straight year in Tennessee
By Marta W. Aldrich
September 11, 2018
Colorado
With accelerated growth in literacy and math, Denver students close in on state averages
By Melanie Asmar
August 16, 2018