As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

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

There are thousands of students in Indiana who were in 3rd grade last school year and did not advance to the 4th grade this school year. The IREAD retention law now requires 3rd grade students to be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The state’s third-grade ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Education is releasing new data for the 2024-25 IREAD test, specifically how it relates to repeating third grade. The assessment tests whether third graders ...

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

The state aims to see 70% of its third graders reading at grade level by 2027. So far, only about half are hitting the mark.

An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - WBRC has an update on Alabama’s Literacy Law. WBRC now knows how many third graders did not move on to the fourth grade this school year - because they scored below reading ...