Student teacher Donna Willingham reads to her five-year-old pre-kindergartner students, from left, Toussaint Miller, Darion Gooch and Christian Weaver at the Wade Child Care Center in 2008. The Wade ...
62% of Polk County children were not ready for kindergarten in 2024. Can early language skills and programs like Camp READY close the gap?
More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...