In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, educators and school leaders find themselves facing a growing literacy crisis. Many students experienced learning loss due to virtual education or absence from ...

SOUTH BEND — Local advocacy group We Make Indiana is addressing the third grade reading crisis in South Bend, recruiting community members to become high-impact tutors to get students ready for their ...

The United States has witnessed a disturbing trend in recent years: a decline in literacy rates. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- 130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children, according to the National Literacy Institute. This is a generational issue that can lead to other ...

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Indiana school leaders, education experts, teachers and lawmakers all agree on the same thing: The reading crisis plaguing Indiana's youngest students must be dealt with now. But disagreements arise ...

Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University released the third iteration of their Education Recovery Scorecard in February.

We Make Indiana is partnering with Tutor-ND to recruit and train 100 community volunteers to provide high-impact tutoring to third-grade students in South Bend. The initiative aims to address the ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the amount of training required to become a tutor in the program. The ...