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

To help more of Arizona’s youngest students develop the literacy skills they need to be proficient readers and successful in school, partners in Read On Arizona, our state’s early literacy initiative, ...

Want to help your third-grader master the basics of reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what a sentence says to figure out the meaning of ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Leaders at Pittsburgh Public Schools are putting their weight behind improving third-grade reading scores — an ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

Confronted with evidence that huge shares of elementary pupils read significantly below grade level after years of pandemic-impacted schooling, Portland-area school districts are mounting varied ...

Plans for a statewide program to help third grade students struggling to read at grade level are being abolished because of a shortage of state funding and questions about the initiative's ...

Despite investing heavily in early literacy since 2015, Michigan schools showed the largest decline in third-grade reading levels among 11 comparable states in the last three years, according to a new ...