The proposed 2026 Indianapolis budget includes a $400,000 commitment to Circle City Readers, a one-on-one tutoring program.

Students in Illinois are steadily returning to class across Illinois’ 866 school districts and 3,835 schools. The state’s ...

Every child deserves to be a confident, capable reader by the end of third grade. We must stay focused and keep our foot on ...

"Indiana has made extraordinary progress from where we began just a few years ago, when nearly one in five Indiana third graders could not read, to today when literacy rates have increased," Dr. Katie ...

Indiana's third-grade literacy rates see a significant increase, reaching 87.3% proficiency in 2025. The largest single-year increase since the IREAD assessment began.

Walon Smith, through Read United, improve literacy for Georgia third graders with personalized tutoring, helping students gain up to two grade levels.

Walon Smith and other volunteers from Read United have tutored 250 children in six years ...

The decline in American literacy rates is creating a generation with weaker critical thinking skills as reading for pleasure hits a 40-year low despite billions in education spending.