More than 1 in 3 children in kindergarten through grade 3 have little chance of reading on grade level by the end of the school year without major and systemic interventions. That’s according to a new ...

LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Friday repealing a law that required third grade students to be held back if they had low reading scores. The so-called Read by Grade Three Law ...

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 ...

Carson City School District’s literacy plan to improve early reading interventions for kindergarteners through third graders is working well, but professional learning for teachers to keep fourth and ...

The first bill a lawmaker introduces usually indicates where that person’s priorities lie. For Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, that’s fixing Michigan’s grade three reading law which requires schools ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

A just-updated Nevada law revives the possibility that struggling young readers will have to repeat third grade, but officials stress that support systems are in place to help students who fall behind ...