Former Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff points to Mississippi as an example of progress in speech before Detroit Economic Club.

Adjust the results for such things as student poverty, and the “southern surge” is even more impressive. On a ranking compiled by the Urban Institute, a think-tank, Mississippi comes top (see chart 1) ...

Families with children who have dyslexia have long pushed lawmakers to respond to a pressing concern: Too many young students ...

Danielle “Nell” Thompson and Terrie Noland lead schools from fragmented efforts to coherent literacy practices Literacy improvement efforts have swept across the nation by policy or by passion, yet ...

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

OPINION: Under current structural conditions, there's never going to be enough money to pay California teachers a comfortable ...

WASHINGTON — Alabama’s efforts to improve literacy were on full display on Capitol Hill this week as Bonnie Short of th Reading Initiative detailed to House appropriators how the ...

The good news is Alabama, long a cellar dweller when it comes to educational attainment, is becoming a model for improving childhood literacy.

Education is the cornerstone of American prosperity, but the future of public education in Texas is in danger. Over the past decade, our education system has seen declines in our ...