The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today announced 85% of third graders passed the third-grade reading assessment ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. Mississippi's ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...