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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A decade ago, state lawmakers pledged to Ohioans that all children would read proficiently. That was the right thing to do. But last summer, they back-pedaled by gutting retention and allowing parents ...

Apr. 6—Third graders who fail to show grade-level reading proficiency in ongoing ACAP tests could be held back a year under a state law, but area superintendents are optimistic that steps taken to ...

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

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

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

Nearly 34% of Michigan third-grade students aren’t proficient in English language arts, according to 2021-22 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) testing. Six years ago, just 24% of ...

Just under three-fourths of Colorado’s third-graders are reading at grade level — a mark that has not changed much over the years, according to preliminary results from the Colorado Department of ...

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 ...