The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade ...

Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...

All third grade students will receive 10 books selected through the district’s partnership with Scholastic. The district will spend just over $550,000 on the program, officials said. The books, which ...

Repealing the third-grade reading retention requirement is a great first step that must be followed by additional commonsense reading reforms that provide our students with the support they deserve.

Thursday, the Mississippi Department of Education released the results from the first round of this year's third-grade reading assessment.Students took that test last month. On the first try, 75.7% ...

Tennessee third and fourth graders will navigate the effects of a reading and retention law over the summer.

The Third Grade Reading Guarantee isn’t the only literacy-related issue before lawmakers. The General Assembly is also studying DeWine’s budget proposal to transition all public school ...

Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.

Passing the reading portion of the third-grade annual test, called the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program or ACAP, is the quickest way to move on to the fourth grade.

While third-grade reading scores are improving, they haven't rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. Thirty-four percent of Erie third-graders were proficient or advanced readers in 2018-29, before ...

I'm Liz Schubauer, the Tennessean's city editor, back with another edition of School Zone. This week, we have updates on state programs around test scores and third-grade reading, plus a profile ...

A total of 26 states had third grade reading laws as of 2019, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education. Among those, 19 carry mandatory retention based on state assessments or ...