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 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. A leading House Republican has filed legislation in Tennessee to widen criteria for determining ...

Michigan's third graders have struggled to pass the state's annual assessment every spring, with the proportion of students passing the test declining nearly every year since the test's inception. In ...

The stories are part of a school-year-long narrative project, edited by Ted Anthony, on the race to teach third graders to read; no other news organization has launched anything like it. Research ...