Literacy Now is once again hosting its annual Houston Reads Day and is looking for volunteers to take just 20 minutes out of ...

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 ...

Only three out of 10 pupils in Grades 1 to 3 can read at their grade level in their home languages. In some languages, up to ...

As the school year moves forward, state legislators around the country are increasingly talking about holding students back.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

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 new provision in the Arkansas LEARNS Act that took effect at the start of the school year will force students to repeat the ...

Supervisors of instruction presented a first reading Jan. 4 to update Queen Anne’s County Public Schools’ Promotion and ...

The number of third-graders with major reading problems has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic, just the latest red flag in Louisiana's uphill fight to improve its crippling literacy woes.

KINGSPORT — A group of parents of mostly Kingsport City Schools elementary students is seeking to change a Tennessee law on third-graders’ reading test performance. The group plans a community meeting ...