The State of Your State's Early Education Program
How different states stack up in promoting early literacy.
Literacy
How Minnesota Is Addressing Third-Grade Literacy Well Before Third Grade
Abbie Lieberman explores how far one state has gone in improving early literacy—and how far all 50 still have to go.
What Does It Mean That 1 in 4 Adults Didn't Read a Book Last Year?
Those numbers sound way more alarming than they actually are. The bigger problem: the stagnant literacy rate.
Learning to Read When a School System Falters
How a determined student, who was once branded ineducable, finds the help of dedicated New York City educators and mounts a path toward literacy at age 18.
Are the Arts Irrelevant to the Next Generation?
New research from Norway finds a steep drop in interest in art, literature and classical music among college students between 1998 and 2008.
Music Education Improves Literacy of Second-Graders
As arts and music programs get squeezed out of America's cash-strapped schools, evidence continues to accumulate of the wide-reaching positive effects of such training.