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 ...

The last school term is often the time when parents and their children start looking towards the following year. This is especially true for children in Grade R who will be embarking on the start of ...

One hundred eighty-five pages. That’s the length of Culver City Unified School District’s LCAP — our Local Control Accountability Plan. Graphs, numbers, charts, data. I flip through the pages, ...

Concern over a new requirement that third graders read at grade-level to move on to fourth grade has created a "sense of ...

In 1993, in its education report card, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce named literacy as a significant issue plaguing Metro Public Schools. Twenty-six years later, 7 out of 10 third-graders in Metro ...

Third grade students in California’s lowest performing schools are doing better at reading, thanks to the Elementary Literacy Support Block Grant funding and a new focus on curriculum materials based ...

State Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, is chairman of the education committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Many Tennessee families were shocked this spring when they found out their children ...

When called upon to read aloud last fall, Anthony Branch slumped in his seat and hid his brown eyes behind a textbook. In his first week of 2nd grade, the 7-year-old stammered over “again” and “think.

After all retests were administered, the Mississippi Dept. of Education reported that 85 percent of all third graders passed ...

Just two years ago, Indiana faced a sobering reality: nearly 1 in 5 third-graders could not read proficiently, and our state was grappling with what many rightfully called a literacy crisis. That ...

Studies showing that children who read below grade level by 3rd grade continue to struggle in school long afterwards have engendered a patchwork of literacy laws across the country. Many of those ...