Learning to read is widely considered the bridge to later academic success. In hopes of ensuring that success, more than a dozen states, including Florida, require students to pass a reading test to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced 85% of third graders passed the third-grade reading ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines or gains in student performance.

After all retests were administered, the Mississippi Dept. of Education reported that 85 percent of all third graders passed the assessment during the 2024-2025 school year, an increase of a full ...

Will your 3rd-grader be held back? A bill aimed at improving childhood literacy was signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder on Oct. 6. Starting in 2019-20, the new law will prevent third-graders from ...

Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading assessment for the 2024-25 school year, according ...

Third-grader reading scores would get more scrutiny than ever under legislation that would hold back some students who are reading at least one grade-level behind. Data from the 2016 M-STEP, ...

New data shows the impact of Indiana's new IREAD retention law that prevents third graders from promoting if they can't pass ...

About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this year under a new state law that requires students to pass the ...