Cleveland.com

Parents now call the shots on whether their struggling third-graders are held back. But does it help or hurt Ohio students?

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Across Ohio, school districts are promoting thousands of third graders who didn’t meet state reading benchmarks, placing unprecedented demands on limited resources for reading ...

Less than a third of 3rd-8th graders at Nashville public schools are passing their annual English exams, data shows

Metro Nashville Public Schools has lagged behind state averages in 3rd-8th grade student proficiency for years, at an average ...
WWNO

Can Louisiana’s third-grade reading law help kids catch up?

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...
WSBT

Operation Education: Districts in Indiana likely to hold some 3rd graders back after IREAD

The testing window for the IREAD-3 assessment opens in just a few days. Legislation passed last year requires 3rd grade students to be retained if they do not pass the Indiana reading assessment.