While more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there. Save the Children's Literacy Boost is helping to change that by creating ...

The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the ... t considered statistically ...

less than 25% of fourth and eighth graders are reading proficiently. In 2023, 43% of Oakland County students, nearly 65,000 kids, fell into “the literacy gap,” according to Beyond Basic’s ...