Third grade students at Fanny Coppin Elementary gathered Wednesday to read the first of 20 books they’ll read in the next 20 weeks. The School District of Philadelphia will give a prize to every third ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

This is the 12th story in an occasional series on a dramatic national push to revamp the teaching of reading in the earliest grades. This special report has examined how California, despite ...

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 ...

Third graders in Maryland who don’t read on grade level by the end of the school year may find themselves repeating the grade. Maryland’s department of education is considering enacting a statewide ...

Parents and teachers are on the frontlines of California’s literacy crisis amid a national debate on how best to teach reading. Both groups often lack the tools to get involved and be heard. This ...

For decades, Mississippi was at the bottom of the list is almost anything related to education. That turned around with the ...

State Rep. Kem Smith, a Democrat from Florissant, says she began thinking differently about automatic third-grade retention ...

As Louisiana tries to boost literacy rates by improving how schools teach reading, a coalition of New Orleans groups is trying to raise awareness of other factors — like attendance and preschool — ...

Sweeping changes to public school reading policies, including having struggling readers repeat third grade, overwhelmingly passed the state House on Monday. Senate BiIl 1778 passed 87-5 and now ...

In Jefferson City, a high-stakes fight over how Missouri teaches kids to read is coming down to one brutal line in the law: ...