Like other school districts in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is expecting to hold back some third-grade students next year due to reading performance issues as required under the Arkansas LEARNS ...

The Alabama Board of Education on Thursday voted 7-to-2 to raise the score requirement on the state’s third grade reading test - the first hurdle determining whether the student moves to fourth grade ...

INDIANPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Department of Education released data today that shows reading scores for third graders have improved for a third straight year. The data shows that 82.5% of Indiana ...

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 ...

Two thirds of North Carolina kindergarten through third graders met reading test benchmarks at the end of the 2023-24 school year, about the same share as at the end of the last year. But the scores ...

Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading assessment for the 2024-25 school year, according to new data released Thursday by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) exam has been a familiar milestone for Indiana’s third graders, but this year, students could be at risk for being ...