Dearborn Public Schools to create Read by Third Grade community task force

December 24th, 20180 DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools is creating a parent and community task force to look at the Read by Third Grade law scheduled to take full effect next year.  Under the law, any third grader who is considered more than a year behind in reading must be recommended to repeat the grade. The task force will allow the community to...

Michigan language arts exam results raise concern

September 3rd, 20180 LANSING — Michigan’s state-wide reading and writing exam results may concern residents after the state invested around $100 million to improve reading instruction.  The results, which were released Wednesday morning by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), stated that only 44 percent of students in grades 3-8 who took the...