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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Janet Morrissey, The New York Times Co. When 12-year-old Nina Mones was in sixth grade last year, she struggled to keep up with her math class, getting ...

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 ...