Students who don’t pass can also receive “good cause exemptions,” which allows students learning English or who have disabilities to move on to fourth grade even without passing the reading assessment ...

"If we're going to move the needle, we'll have to do something differently," the district's top curriculum and instruction ...

About 1% of third and fourth graders were held back this year under Tennessee’s 2021 reading intervention and retention law.

Just over 650 third graders were retained under Tennessee's controversial reading and retention law in 2024, state data shows ...

Following steep declines in school attendance in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, Oregon students are slowly ...

Philadelphia's K-8 public school students are being taught a new literacy curriculum starting in the 2024-2025 school year.

Fifth-grade students from North Reading Public School District in Massachusetts achieved the best test scores in the state on ...

For the past decade, Ohio required that students who failed reading benchmarks be held back. Now, a new policy hands that decision to parents, allowing them to promote their children, regardless of ...

When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election ...

Recent test results show that more than half of Santa Barbara Unified School District elementary students failed to meet ...

Houston ISD's Board of Managers cautiously celebrated higher scores in some beginning-of-year snapshot exams and changed the entry requirements for Carnegie Vanguard High School at its Thursday ...