In a 26-10 vote, the Legislature narrowly gave first-round approval Thursday to a bill allowing schools to hold back third-grade students who are reading below grade level with parental permission.

Here's how you can submit letters to the Public Pulse opinion section. Across Nebraska right now, thousands of elementary students are sitting down with a book, sounding out words and building a skill ...

Marietta City Board of Education member Chris Fennell, left, shakes Steve Brown’s hand, middle, at the regular Board of Education meeting Monday. (Photo by Amber Phipps) MARIETTA — Marietta Elementary ...

Marietta Elementary School Principal Brittany Schob presents student Sylas Werry with the monthly Focused and Fierce award during a regular Marietta City Board of Education meeting Monday. (Photo by ...

Everywhere House Speaker Kyle Hilbert goes, the topic of childhood literacy follows. Hilbert, R-Bristow, said improving Oklahoma’s elementary reading scores is “top of the agenda for me,” and he’s ...

It's been an eventful two days so far at TPC Sawgrass for the 2026 Players Championship. The PGA Tour's flagship event features some big names at the top of the leaderboard as well as the world's No.

China has reportedly become the first country to mass-produce T1200-grade carbon fiber, a high-performance material with applications in defense, aerospace, and robotics. Mostly, Japanese and American ...

PACIFIC BEACH – As it is an International Baccalaureate school, all Pacific Beach Middle students, grades 6-8, are required to perform community service each year. In eighth grade, their volunteer ...

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IDAHO FALLS — In Tiffany Nielsen’s third grade classroom, football season doesn’t end with the Super Bowl — it ends with thousands of minutes of reading. This year, all that reading paid off big time ...

When you were in school, were you a leader or a follower? Unfortunately, in the sixth grade, I was a follower. Back then, every sixth grader at William L. Radney Elementary School in Alexander City ...

Children who received Early Intervention (EI) services before age 3 were more likely to meet third-grade academic standards in math and English language arts (ELA), according to a study by researchers ...