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 ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Around ten Kingsport students will face an extra challenge when they begin TCAP testing this spring. Tennessee’s controversial third-grade retention law will hold children ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. At Frank Sparkes Elementary, words fly everywhere. On a recent Monday, kindergartners sang and danced as they learned about the silent e ...

The widespread effects of the Tennessee reading and retention law will be felt again this year for thousands of public school third and fourth graders and their families. The Tennessee Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than half of Tennessee third graders fell short of a threshold required to move on to fourth grade unless they meet exemption standards, up their scores in a retake, attend summer school, undergo ...

Learn how to use technology to help develop your third-grader’s growing interest in reading. There is a large selection of online books for children, many with interactive features such as animations ...

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, ...