APS is launching a new literacy model at four schools to help more students read confidently by fourth grade.

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

The countdown clock is ticking loudly. Mandatory retention of low-level readers at the end of 3rd grade in Nevada is set to begin in 2028. It is time to pull the plug on, not resuscitate, this piece ...

Read it and weep. More than half of 3rd- to 5th-grade students in the Empire State failed their reading proficiency state ...

The Parent Access to Supplemental Supports, or PASS, program offers $400 grants to third graders who didn't pass the STAAR reading exam. Lawmakers created the program as a part of House Bill 2.

Georgia’s public elementary schools are preparing to implement a significant curriculum change that will affect thousands of students across the state beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year. The ...

In some parts of this region, the first day of school is less than two weeks away. With the new year, there are continued ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

(CBS DETROIT) - The Michigan Department of Education released the 2024 results of the standard tests, M-STEP and SAT/PSAT, showing that some grade levels are falling behind in certain subjects. The ...

Some Memphis Shelby County Schools parents are raising concerns after learning third graders could be asked to retake part of the TCAP English Language Arts exam during the final days of the school ...

MSCS's Summer Learning Academy is mandatory for some third-graders based on TCAP scores. Around 3,100 third-graders are enrolled in the summer program, but the number required due to the reading law ...

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