Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

The Vigo County School Corp. had 26 children retained in third grade for not meeting the state’s reading proficiency standards, according to Indiana Department of Education data. The state has made ...

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 ...

Nevada 3rd grade reading rates up, but fewer than half proficient as retention rule looms. Read more from The Nevada ...

Third-grade reading test scores are cause for celebration, say local schools. Not so, says the state – they’re reading below the state average. According to the Colorado Department of ...

About two in five third graders participating in the second round of testing for Mississippi’s literacy promotion test scored high enough to move on to the fourth grade, the state Department of ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention facilities get high school diplomas with grade-school reading ...