The Alabama State Board of Education voted to raise the minimum reading score required for third graders to move to the next grade.The Literacy Act requires third graders to meet reading benchmarks ...

Last year, about 9% of third graders in the state were reading below grade level. While this is an 8% decrease from the year ...

Gaps between materials required by districts and those used in classrooms put the mission of improving student literacy at risk.

Third graders statewide can expect a new standard for reading levels this school year. The State Board of Education approved ...

People who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure may want to check again. That’s because many commonly used arm positions for blood pressure checks can lead to inaccurately high readings, ...

The event overlapped with the Fort Worth ISD school board’s appointment of an interim superintendent. Karen Molinar takes ...

Recent research has shed light on a crucial factor affecting blood pressure readings: arm position during measurement.

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“One of my hopes is that this will help inform patients as to how to do this on their own and also to tell their health care ...

The Albert Lea school board on Monday dug deeper into data about attendance across the district as well as the challenges they face and strategies in place to improve those numbers. Tonya Franks, ...

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Checking your blood pressure at home? Pay attention to arm position.A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers confirms t ...