FAYETTEVILLE -- Like other school districts in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is expecting to hold back some third-grade students next year due to reading performance issues as required under the ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – Some schools have already welcomed students back into the classroom across Tennessee. This week marks the first few days of summer school for many third-graders since the ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Education presented the final policies behind the Third-Grade Retention Law to the State Board of Education Committee at a work session on Thursday. The ...

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 ...

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Schools officials are outlining an extensive system of assessments, interventions and parent communication designed to support struggling readers and mathematicians ahead of ...