Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third graders in JPS who pass the state ...

Cox’s 2026 agenda to focus on reading interventions and taking tech out of the classroom, as well as homelessness and housing ...

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Reading scores for Erie third-graders are improving. And that's good news for their future prospects in school and beyond. Third grade is a kind of watershed year in education. Through third grade, ...

Ohio lawmakers are debating changes to high-stakes reading tests that can hold students back in third grade. Since 2013, Ohio third graders are tested in reading and if they don't perform at grade ...

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 ...

Overall, MCCSC had a successful testing year with an 86.8% pass rate for IREAD, which is a 3.7% increase from last year, but ...

As Tennessee third graders sit for annual tests this week, lawmakers approved changes to the state’s retention law that could require as many as two-thirds of Tennessee third graders to attend ...

Nearly 6% of Michigan third-graders who took state tests last spring were significantly behind in reading, and Black third-graders were more than four times more likely to be significantly behind in ...

The first part of McCrory’s claim has factual basis but needs context. Officials say 75% of third-graders weren’t reading at grade-level when they took the beginning-of-grade test. The second part of ...

NASHVILLE — Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. She’s always busy, but ...