They found that 3rd graders who were identified as at-risk for retention did better on end-of-year reading and math tests ...

A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year ...

Harmony Fletcher likes to read and does so every night, but that was not enough to help her pass the English-Language Arts portion of Tennessee’s assessment exam (TCAP) last spring, her mother, ...

Tennessee's controversial third grade reading and retention law has been in effect since 2023. But is it working?

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A pandemic-related exception to the requirement that students repeat the third grade if they’re not reading proficiently ends with this academic year, and state lawmakers are ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

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