Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Starting Kindergarten is a major milestone on a student's academic path, but not all students have an equal starting point. Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ...

Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Just 1 in 10 kindergarteners in the bottom fifth of their class reach proficiency by third grade, a new analysis finds.

Peter Rosario has spent years watching his teachers help Spanish-speaking preschoolers sound out English words at La Casa de ...

Maryland ranks 19th in child well-being according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Book. Gains in economic health are offset by declining test scores.

There have been fewer than 100 kindergarten students in the Burrell School District for the last three years — a 23% decline ...

"There's a big discrepancy between the leadership in the district and the actual teachers," Lower Merion parent Yair Lev said ...

Scandinavia is the land of five-week vacations, virtually free university, one-year parental leaves, easy child care — and ...

Expanding preschool access and college-credit opportunities and improving employee retention are among the biggest goals that ...

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is ...

This week, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that statewide test scores had increased in 2026. KNWA/FOX24 spoke with the Arkansas Department of Education Secretary James Olivia about what ...