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 ...

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

That’s why NWEA’s findings for third graders are alarming. The results emerged from an analysis of fall 2022 test scores of seven million elementary and middle school children across the nation, in ...

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.

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 ...

If the take-home reading packet is still in the backpack in a hall closet right about now, there’s no time to waste.

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% ...

Similar to third-grade reading, if a student underperforms on the math portion of the TCAP or Universal Screener test, they would be required to attend summer school or after-school tutoring.

See where 3rd grade reading scores are highest, lowest in ... Books line the shelves inside Freeman’s library during the unveiling of a book vending machine for students to promote March as ...