No one hates a bad teacher more than a good teacher,” Arne Duncan remarked in 2009. No one talks as bluntly about K-12 education as President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary once did. The next ...

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

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 ...

Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading assessment for the 2024-25 school year, according to new data released Thursday by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 6—Third graders who fail to show grade-level reading proficiency in ongoing ACAP tests could be held back a year under a ...

Reading scores for Erie third-graders are improving. And that's good news for their future prospects in school and beyond. Third grade is a kind of watershed year in education. Through third grade, ...

Part of the 'Strong Readers Act' includes the implementation of second graders taking third-grade reading tests, beginning ...

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