Third graders in Maryland who don’t read on grade level by the end of the school year may find themselves repeating the grade. Maryland’s department of education is considering enacting a statewide ...

More Indiana third graders passed the IREAD-3 in 2024 compared to 2023. That is good news because in 2025, 3rd graders who don’t pass the state’s reading assessment could be held back. Local schools ...

More than a decade after Oklahoma lawmakers voted to stop holding back third-grade students who couldn’t read at grade level, ...

ELKHART, Ind. (WSBT) — It is likely that nearly every school district in Indiana will have to hold some third graders back this school year. 2025 is the first year the IREAD retention law is in effect ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Education advocates, faith leaders and the state’s largest teachers’ union were at the Statehouse Tuesday to voice their concerns about a bill that recently passed out of the Senate.

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Reading state test scores released from the Mississippi Department of Education show momentum continuing to build across the state. 85% of third graders passed the third-grade ...

Indiana reading test scores released Wednesday by the state show nearly one in five third graders still struggle to read in what the secretary of education called a "crisis." Statewide results of the ...

Members of the Maryland State Board of Education were skeptical Tuesday of State Superintendent Carey Wright’s draft literacy policy that includes holding back third graders who can’t read on grade ...

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...

The widespread effects of a statewide third-grade reading and retention law are quickly unfolding after parents received the results of the standardized Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program test ...

Almost all children can learn to read with effective data-driven support, according to Gardner Institute analysis.