Reading scores are rising for elementary students in New York City, Indiana, Louisiana and elsewhere as schools adopt research-backed methods.

Mississippi should be a role model for the nation in how to teach reading, along with Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, but old stereotypes persist.

How Louisiana is raising reading scores and hoping to improve math achievement.

School spending soared in the last 10 years as test scores fell -- except in states such as Louisiana and Mississippi.

“Students who are habitually ungovernable should be removed from teachers’ classrooms so teachers can actually teach and students can...

Louisiana's law requiring public schools and universities to post the Ten Commandments is unlikely to be deemed constitutional.

Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...

Louisiana students not reading at grade level in K-4 would be required to attend summer school -- or repeat a grade -- under a proposal...