KENTWOOD, MI -- Eight-year-old Cora Hovermale fires up a computer at Kentwood's Meadowlawn Elementary and meets her chosen avatar - a casually dressed girl - ready to help tackle that day's lesson.

Ideally, i-Ready, the school district’s new $5.3 million software program, can hone in on why Johnny can’t read this passage or do that math and then give him lessons and tasks to build the missing ...

Students in kindergarten through eighth grade who have been taught and tested against Common Core State Standards, through an online adaptive benchmark and instruction system called iReady, are ...