Illiteracy is a major problem in the United States. In 2024, 24% of adult Americans are illiterate. Over half of U.S. adults, 54%, read below a 6th-grade level. This is an incredibly concerning trend.

Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into ...

"When it comes to actual ability to be able to read grade-level text, it's shockingly low," said reading tutor Nicki Pratti.

Claire Dodson explores the glut of 2025 reading challenges and obsessive ... easy stacks of children’s books well under my grade level) to maximize my point totals. I was high off the points ...

The Little Falls Community School Board approved Grade Level Banding (GLB ... Johnson says they staggered the start times at all the schools to help parents with kids at multiple locations.

When children's reading problems are identified early, they are more likely to learn strategies that will raise their reading to grade level ... many as 15 percent of all Americans.

One group with the teacher doing directed fast-paced instruction on letters, sounds and combining them to read syllables, ...

(The Center Square) – According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the ...

But what those earlier readers didn’t yet know was that all ... reading aloud can actually reduce memory and comprehension. To understand this effect, one need only harken back to fifth grade ...

(The Center Square) — Louisiana students in kindergarten through third grade improved their reading proficiency by 2.3 percentage points on a literacy ... Students will be given three opportunities to ...