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 ...

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 ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

It’s been said that up until third grade, children are learning to read. But from that point onward, they are reading to learn. Third grade is a pivotal year. Legislation in Florida once required ...

Just 1.4% of last year's third graders at Metro Nashville Public Schools will be held back due to a new state reading and retention law. MNPS estimated around 34% of its roughly 6,000 third graders ...

About 5.6% of Michigan's third graders were eligible to be held back this school year due to low reading scores, according to a report from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation ...