Utah Gov. Spencer Cox launched a campaign on Wednesday to boost the state’s stubbornly low third grade reading scores by hiring more teaching assistants and holding more students back who don’t read ...

Illinois lowered its standards in 2025, but over half of third graders still couldn’t read at grade level. It’s a critical milestone. See how your students did. Even under loosened proficiency ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. With American schools facing a literacy crisis, the “Mississippi miracle” has become the poster child for ...

About 3,000 Indiana students are repeating third grade this school year for not meeting the state’s reading proficiency standards. Data released Wednesday by the Indiana Department of Education showed ...

State data released Wednesday show 3.6% of third graders who took the 2025 IREAD did not pass and did not qualify for an exemption. (Pixabay) About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Education is releasing new data for the 2024-25 IREAD test, specifically how it relates to repeating third grade. The assessment tests whether third graders ...

Just over 3,000 third graders were kept from advancing to the fourth grade in 2025 after being unable to pass the Indiana standardized reading test. Data released during the State Board of Education ...

About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this fall under a new state law that ties promotion to a reading test. It’s the most students retained since Indiana began tracking elementary ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — A Lexington One parent says he was stunned to learn his child went nine weeks without any science lessons, even though classroom newsletters said otherwise. Jay, a Deerfield ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...