Seventy percent of children in the U.S. don’t read proficiently in third grade. “But what we know at Scholastic from kids’ ...

Scholastic's Chief Impact Office Judy Newman congratulated the assembled kids for being first in a national campaign to address what she described as a literary crisis in the United States.

70% of kids aren't reading proficiently at grade level by third grade," said Judy Newman, the chief impact officer of Scholastic. The Massachusetts edition of the program has $750,000 in state ...