Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

Correction: This article has been updated to show that 91.9% of Shelby County’s third grade students scored high enough to reach the cut score. Alabama’s third grade reading scores held steady this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 6—Third graders who fail to show grade-level reading proficiency in ongoing ACAP tests could be held back a year under a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. That concern now appears well-founded as we’re ...

For the last five years, Alabama has embarked on an effort to dramatically reshape how it teaches reading to young students. And recently, it appeared to have paid off. Social media posts and news ...

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 ...

One boy, now 12, said he still struggles with feeling "stupid" after his experience with Tennessee's reading law in 2023.

Nearly 34% of Michigan third-grade students aren’t proficient in English language arts, according to 2021-22 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) testing. Six years ago, just 24% of ...