Parents are stressed, and kids are coming home crying. These are the emotions more families say they're experiencing this summer because of a new law that will likely mean more third graders are kept ...

Learning to read is widely considered the bridge to later academic success. In hopes of ensuring that success, more than a dozen states, including Florida, require students to pass a reading test to ...

Tens of thousands of students across Tennessee are awaiting the results of their standardized tests, which will set off a fast-moving timeline to determine whether they're held back under a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Results from the state-wide mandated 2023 Tennessee Comprehensive Academic Program (TCAP) exams are in, and for third-grade students, the numbers are especially critical due to a ...

A historically difficult hurdle for English language learners is returning next month with bigger stakes – pass Indiana’s third grade reading assessment or risk being held back. Today’s third graders ...

Barbara Gottschalk is an English language acquisition teacher and an America Achieves fellow. House Bill 4822, popularly known as the Third Grade Reading Bill, aims to help Michigan students by ...

New research that suggests struggling English-learners could benefit from repeating 3rd grade has drawn a strong rebuke from leading scholars—and rekindled the national debate over so-called “literacy ...

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show ...

The Florida Department of Education has released the first portion of Florida Standards Assessment results, and Santa Rosa County was one of the state's top performers. The FSA is a battery of tests ...

Michigan educators vowed Tuesday to examine the continued decline of proficiency among third-grade students in the reading portion of the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress. Since 2015, ...

Like her fellow teachers at Slaughter Elementary, Laura Laiche sat quietly Monday morning at a school assembly with lots of prominent people present, never realizing that they were all there for her.