The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

So, what’s being done to help them overcome challenges? At Wayne-Westland Community Schools, it’s finding success stories in helping students soar in reading. Nowadays, Penelope Coyle’s reading ...

Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" ...

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 ...

Want to help your third-grader master the basics of reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what a sentence says to figure out the meaning of ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

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 ...

Julie Novak, Minnesota's first literacy director and a former teacher, once found a cheat sheet in a student's notebook that underlined her conviction that everyone can learn to read. The teenager ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Friday that strikes from law a requirement to hold back third graders who fail a reading proficiency test. "Today, we are taking action to put power back into ...

Detroit — The lanky west Michigan businessman looked a little out of place. Standing before a group of mostly educators, researchers and their industry’s advocates, the retired pharmaceutical company ...