EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities After a decade-long push from reading advocates, California schools are on the verge of requiring every ...

A growing number of states are promising to hold back students who cannot read by the end of third grade. Two years ago, Ohio passed legislation to put up a barrier to fourth grade for those who ...

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The state’s largest school districts are facing serious challenges. According to the report, 28.9 percent of Oklahoma City’s third graders and 32.7 percent of Tulsa’s scored “unsatisfactory.” However, ...

MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristen Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books, stories about vampires and even a college-level anatomy textbook that her mother is studying to become ...

Not every third-grader who fails the reading test and is retained will repeat the entire third-grade year. Under the test-based retention law, every school district must adopt its own policy to guide ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...