AmeriCorps Polk Reads, a program of the Polk Education Foundation, is currently seeking individuals interested in being tutors in its kindergarten through third grade reading tutoring program.

When 8-year-old A'aNilah Hamlin rides around Milwaukee with her grandmother, she reads aloud the passing signs and billboards. She knows the letters, and she can sound them out together in words. When ...

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In pandemic and post-pandemic era education, teachers, school leaders, and parents have been concerned with getting kids back on grade level and closing the achievement gap. In fact, according to the ...

A student at Washington Elementary School was struggling to read, so Dor Scheetz-Hollar found reading material about the Flash to help engage him because the student loved the DC superhero. The ...

Detroit — A Michigan nonprofit is trying to raise $33 million to send hundreds of literacy tutors to 10,000 students in Detroit high schools who are not reading at grade level. The company's tutoring ...

As someone recently put it to me, improving Wisconsin’s overall results in reading will not come from pushing one button. It will require pushing maybe 10 buttons. A lot needs to be done. Some of the ...