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 ...

CINCINNATI — An Ohio House Bill looks to end the state's 'Third Grade Reading Guarantee,' which requires third graders to pass a reading test in order to move on to the fourth grade. Some who support ...

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 ...

Alex Pomeroy points his small finger underneath the first word in the sentence, then glides it across the page as he reads out loud. "Alex is in the yellow go-cart," he recites, reading from a book ...

More than 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this school year after failing the state’s IREAD assessment, ...

Tyler Davis believes in ghosts, because one touched him on the neck. Andrew Smith believes that Santa Claus plays the electric guitar outside his home, and Shayla Young believes in love. Each of the ...

SWARTZ CREEK, MI – Students at Morrish Elementary School in Swartz Creek were rewarded with posters, gift cards, and two lucky students were selected to win bicycles all in the name of reading. As ...