Three full years of state testing are on the books since Tennessee enacted its controversial third grade reading law. But while there are some signs of progress in reading proficiency for public ...

Tennessee third-grade reading law: What to know about TCAP scores, retention and more Third graders 2019: 63% not proficient / 37% proficient 2021: 68% not proficient / 32% proficient 2022: 64 ...

GWEN IFILL: A growing number of states are promising to stop promoting students who haven't learned to read by the end of third grade. It's a controversial idea we first reported on two years ago ...

Reading proficiently by the end of third grade is essential to keeping up later, research shows, but a June report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed just a third ...

Prison corporations are not looking at third-grade test scores to plan for the future, and low reading scores alone do not mean that children are likely to go to prison when they’re older.

“If they're close to third grade level, they'll be okay,” explained Mitchell. “But if they're not, it has, honestly, lifelong effects.” In 2011, Maryland’s General Assembly created a ...

In Montgomery Public Schools, 45% of third-graders are reading below for their grade level, according to data from the 2022-2023 school year. That number is up from the 35% of MPS third-graders ...