Tag: reading

-Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, during “Rally for Reading,” on getting third graders to read on par with their peers or being held back under...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said Monday night that Birmingham City Schools (BCS) were facing a reading “crisis” and that adults...

Brittni Williams According to a 2021 Pew Research study, nearly one in four American adults admitted to not reading within the previous year. Even worse, this...

Three years after the passage of a state law requiring that third grade students read on grade level or risk being held back, local...

By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com The Alabama Literacy Act, first passed in 2019, will go fully into effect at the start of the new school...

Matt Windsor UAB Reporter In every life are moments that can be pivotal. But few may be more consequential, or overlooked, than the third-grade reading test. As...

Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  Reading IS Fundamental.  That was the message of I See Me Inc.’s, 11th annual “Real Men Read: You Can Be Virtually...

By Hillel Italie Associated Press  NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,”...

By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times When Jayla Groom went on Facebook last year and saw her mother’s mugshot on Crime Stoppers with a “Wanted” caption...

By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times Dee Edwards remembers her daughter Aubrey coming home from school one day upset that she didn’t look like her friends....