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

TPSD Deputy Superintendent Kim Britton said in May after the first round of retests. That the third graders’ reading-assessment pass rates remained largely steady was an excellent sign.

Just 0.88% of Tennessee public school third graders were held back this year under the state's controversial reading law ... Elementary School on the first day of school in Goodlettsville ...

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 ...

Just 0.88% of Tennessee public school third graders were held back this year under the state's controversial reading law, despite 60% of the class falling short of a state reading benchmark this ...

Before Southfield-based Attorney Jason Waechter became the “Motorcycle Lawyer” and Dr. Walter “Wally” Cukrowski became one of ...

third graders passed the third-grade reading assessment after the final retest for the 2023-24 academic year. Mississippi’s Literacy-Based Promotion Act requires third graders to achieve a ...

While data is still flowing in, reading program is already yielding positive results for students in grades 1-8.

Lynch Middle School sixth grade teacher Natalee Malpass held a book giveaway for all of the students at the Amsterdam middle school in the auditorium on Monday and Tuesday.

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Some 60% of Tennessee third-grade students scored below proficiency in English language arts ...