Inspired by Mississippi, more states are holding back third graders who struggle to read. But a new research paper shows that this policy can have harmful long-run consequences for those students.

RIDGETOP, Tenn. (WTVF) — Third grade students could be back in the classroom sooner than expected as thousands of Tennessee families navigate the controversial Third Grade Retention Law. Because of ...

About 39% of third-graders at Pittsburgh Phillips K-5 on the city's South Side scored 'proficient' or above on 2025 state reading tests. Pittsburgh Public Schools is blaming “inconsistent ...

One hundred eighty-five pages. That’s the length of Culver City Unified School District’s LCAP — our Local Control Accountability Plan. Graphs, numbers, charts, data. I flip through the pages, ...

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 ...

The testing window for the IREAD-3 assessment opens in just a few days. Legislation passed last year requires 3rd grade students to be retained if they do not pass the Indiana reading assessment.

Students at elementary schools at APS have improved their reading, including students identified in a landmark lawsuit.

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

Just two years ago, Indiana faced a sobering reality: nearly 1 in 5 third-graders could not read proficiently, and our state was grappling with what many rightfully called a literacy crisis. That ...

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...