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.

When states are judged by how well students overcome disadvantages, Mississippi is a winner and high-scoring Massachusetts is mediocre.

Sixty percent of Tennessee third graders faced the prospect of repeating the grade, but only 1.2 percent failed to get past the "reading...

Holding kids back if they're way behind in reading is very controversial, but new research shows that repeating a grade in elementary...

Mississippi students used to rank dead last in learning, writes Phil Bryant, the former governor of the state, on Real Clear Education....

If Tennessee's read-or- repeat law had been in place last year, 65 percent of third graders would have been at-risk of retention for...

Teachers' unions are pushing back against state laws requiring early literacy instruction to be based on the "science of reading," write...

Third graders who read more than a year below grade level will be passed on to fourth grade in Michigan, where Democratic Gov. Gretchen...

"So the anti-public school, pro-book banning crowd has latched onto the “science of reading” movement…shocked," tweets Ryan Davis...

Phonics is back in classrooms and it's helping young children learn to read, writes Bella DiMarco, a FutureEd policy analyst, in the New...