SB241 would allow schools to hold back third graders who can't read at grade level. But it would also introduce more reading ...

An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

About 23% of Louisiana third graders were at risk of being held back last spring due to low reading scores. But after students received exemptions or improved their scores, fewer than 3% were required ...

Aston Villa travel to the Vitality Stadium this weekend to face Bournemouth in a Premier League fixture that arrives at a ...

New data from Fort Worth ISD shows that test scores are improving. According to a progress report that will be shared with ...

Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America’s ...

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

Lawmakers sought to make Michigan a top 10 state for fourth grade reading proficiency. Their initiatives haven't come close to achieving the goal.

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...

Ten years after the "Mississippi Miracle," some senators say it's time for the legislature to focus on progress in elementary ...

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as ...