Over several years, Louisiana has methodically revamped how kids are taught to read. Now, the work appears to be paying off: While students in nearly every other state made little to no reading ...

Louisiana made big gains on a closely watched national test, with its 4th graders leading the country in reading progress and the state climbing to its highest spot ever in the national rankings.

Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

Test scores are out for Louisiana schools, and while the numbers don’t show as much growth as the last two years, students maintained recent gains. “Obviously, we understand that in a state that's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Reading scores ...

In a recent K-12 Study Group meeting held on Tuesday, Louisiana educators expressed growing concerns about the overwhelming amount of standardized testing imposed on students, which they argue ...

Louisiana public school students overall have almost recovered academically from the coronavirus pandemic after two consecutive years of improvement on a key test, state education leaders announced ...

Louisiana is ranked among the worst states when it comes to quality of education and education attainment. Currently, the ...

The Louisiana Department of Education is adding an accountability system for kindergarten through second grade for the first time in the state’s history as part of a plan to address the state's ...