More than 4,000 third graders are in the mix as summer programming gets underway in Nashville and the widespread effects of Tennessee's controversial reading law unfold. Metro Nashville Public Schools ...

A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

LIMA — Thirty-six percent of third-graders at Lima schools earned proficient reading scores on their state English language arts assessment last school year. Almost the entire class advanced to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New data shows 87.3% of Hoosier third graders demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD exam in 2024-25. (Getty Images) ...

Students at elementary schools at APS have improved their reading, including students identified in a landmark lawsuit.

Teaching assistant X, works with a small group of third graders during summer school at Joseph C. Moscano Elementary in Metairie. In this week’s episode, we share some good news from the region: our ...

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 ...

Indiana third graders’ reading proficiency improved at a record-breaking rate in 2025, putting students’ scores on par with pre-pandemic levels. Statewide, 87.3% of third graders scored proficient on ...

Oklahoma experienced some of the steepest budget cuts to education in the nation and an exodus of tens of thousands of ...

In Tiffany Nielsen’s third grade classroom, football season doesn’t end with the Super Bowl — it ends with thousands of ...

Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest year-to-year improvement since the state began IREAD testing in 2013, rising nearly five percentage points from last year, according to ...