JOHNSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Some parents and school board members in Johnson County are working with Representative Timothy Hill (R – District 3) to alter Tennessee’s third-grade retention law and ...

John Crawford is sounding an alarm he fears some parents aren’t heeding: Thousands of third-graders in Arkansas could be forced to repeat the grade next school year. A mixed response “tells me that ...

TOOELE COUNTY, Utah — Utah lawmakers are considering what could be an aggressive move to combat lagging childhood literacy rates across the state. State Sen. Ann Millner has introduced Senate Bill 241 ...

The educators at J.B. Nachman Elementary School knew they had to work fast. Several students at the Alexandria school posted low reading scores last spring, putting them at risk of having to repeat ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –West Virginia Department of Education Legislative and Policy Officer Drew McClanahan told lawmakers Tuesday that the Third Grade Success Act has proven effective three years after ...

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 ...

Nearly half of Utah’s K-3 students are reading behind their grade level, even though almost five years ago Utah lawmakers set a goal for 70 percent third-grade reading proficiency by 2027. That’s ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...

The Internet can be a tough field of play, but Mary Crippen has managed to tackle it with ease. After all, the Miami-based third grade teacher has gone viral with her playbook—er, lesson plans—packed ...

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 ...