RALEIGH, NC -- At around 6:30 Wednesday night, James Iadanza sat down with his daughter to help her do her homework. The fourth grader had to complete a reading assignment. Iadanza was helping his ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Parents of Tennessee fourth graders would have input on whether their children get held back ...

A homework assignment asked fourth-graders at a private school in Wauwatosa to argue why slavery was a good thing. It prompted an apology from the principal of Our Redeemer Lutheran School, who said ...