As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

Three years into the implementation of the LEARNS Act, Arkansas educators are bracing for a new reading proficiency ...

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, ...

Sweeping changes to public school reading policies, including having struggling readers repeat third grade, overwhelmingly ...

Around 150 third grade students at Laurentian and North Star Elementary competed against each other in this year's Reading ...

TCAP reading scores will set off a fast-moving timeline for Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back.

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Reading state test scores released from the Mississippi Department of Education show momentum continuing to build across the state. 85% of third graders passed the third-grade ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Reading is a skill set that state educators have closely monitored for decades, but recent state statistics have left parents and educators in Arkansas concerned. "As of 2023, ACT ...

Contributors to the expansion and successes of K-3 Innovation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the reading ...

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