One boy, now 12, said he still struggles with feeling "stupid" after his experience with Tennessee's reading law in 2023.

Should kids be held back in third grade if they can’t read? As of this year, 18 states say yes and impose some form of ...

The release of TCAP reading scores set off a fast-moving timeline for Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back.

Each August in rural southwestern Oklahoma, more than half of Frederick Elementary School’s incoming third graders begin ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

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 ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Reading state test scores released from the Mississippi Department of Education show momentum continuing to build across the state. 85% of third graders passed the third-grade ...

TULSA, Okla. — More than a decade after Oklahoma lawmakers voted to stop holding back third-grade students who couldn’t read at grade level, the debate is back at the State Capitol, driven by ...