The first major moment in a child’s schooling — what many educators call the "make-or-break" year for literacy — is third grade. By the end of third grade, students are expected to transition from ...

MACON, Ga. — Only 38% of third graders in Georgia can read proficiently, according to the Georgia Council on Literacy. For Walon Smith, that number represents more than just data — it's a call to ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...

The Hawks Reading Challenge recently completed its third quarter at Crescent City Grade School. This program is used to ...

For the past 21 years, Olympia Host Lions has donated “A Student’s Dictionary and Gazetteer” to Olympia-area schools.