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The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which ...

Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Imagine being the parent of a third grader who was unable to pass the state’s reading ...

Reading is a vital skill to enable learning. As a 78-year-old, I started school in the early 1950s. Books were all we had. I learned to read when I was ...