Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Leaders at Pittsburgh Public Schools are putting their weight behind improving third-grade reading scores — an ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To help more of Arizona’s youngest students develop the literacy skills they need to be proficient readers and successful in school, partners in Read On Arizona, our state’s ...

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

Michigan students had a heavy weight lifted off their shoulders Friday, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation removing a state mandate that required third graders be held back for ...

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 ...

Indiana released its latest third grade reading scores earlier this month, and the results are nothing short of stunning. The state’s third graders saw a nearly 5 percentage point jump in just one ...

In Indiana, one in five students haven’t mastered reading by the end of third grade. It’s just one of many states across the nation that are facing the issue of elementary illiteracy, especially in ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...

Out of nearly 3,300 third graders in New Orleans public schools last year, only four were required to repeat the grade under a new state reading law. It isn't because the city's students are so ...

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — Indiana’s second and third-graders will face some changes in the 2024-2025 school year after the rollout of the “Every Child Learns to Read” bill July 1. The bill requires ...