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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overall, MCCSC had a successful testing year with an 86.8% pass rate for IREAD, which is a 3.7% increase from last year, but ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.