Overall, student scores declined slightly in reading — less than one percentage point — with 46.7% achieving state learning standards for their grade, compared with 47.1% the year before.

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 ...

Fewer than half of Arizona’s third graders are reading at grade level — a sobering trend that education leaders hope to ...

The biggest improvement was among kindergarteners, with nearly 79% reading at grade level or higher this year, as compared to 66% last spring — marking the first time kindergarten scores have exceed ...

According to federal test scores known as NAEP, in 2013, the year its reading retention law was passed, Mississippi students scored on average a 209 in fourth grade reading, which was far below ...

Third through fifth grade students who are below grade level in reading and math are months into a pilot program of Saturday School. Dr. Nicole Dyson is the director of elementary education.

The group has written model legislation for early reading instruction that includes 3rd grade retention. A 3rd grade student reads to the rest of her class at Beecher Hills Elementary School on ...