A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state ...

Class rank -- as far back as third grade -- can predict which students are more likely than others to take Advanced Placement classes, graduate from high school, enroll in college and graduate from ...

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 ...

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 ...

That number does not factor in automatic exemptions. After exemptions, retakes, summer school and the appeal process all completed, less than 1% of last year's third graders were held back statewide.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A pandemic-related exception to the requirement that students repeat the third grade if they’re not reading proficiently ends with this academic year, and state lawmakers are ...