Memphis-Shelby County Schools will require all 5,450 third graders to retake state reading tests to avoid retention.

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

Memphis school officials are requiring all third graders to retest on their last two days before summer break.

MSCS third-graders showed improvement on the 2025 TCAP English Language Arts section, with 29.2% meeting or exceeding expectations. Prior to exemptions and other interventions, 68% of MSCS ...

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

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 ...

More than 560 third graders who attend the Little Rock School District are at risk of being held back for not reading at grade level, according to preliminary testing data provided by the Arkansas ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Literacy is fundamental in determining a child’s educational success and academic future. And when young students are lacking their “ABC” skills, it’s all but certain they will struggle with other ...

School districts in the region with the highest percentage of third-graders not proficient in reading: Jefferson Twp. 45.0 Dayton Public 44.8 Springfield 36.7 Eaton 32.7 Trotwood-Madison 32.6 ...

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