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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anna Shults, the chief academic officer for the Indiana Department of Education, reviews new retention data at a board meeting Nov ...

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 ...

What sounds great in a bill can lose some of its luster in a law. "Schoolhouse Rocks" never told us that. In 2023, when the Arkansas Legislature passed Gov. Sarah Sanders' signature legislation, known ...

Rep. Keith Brooks (left) and Education Secretary Jacob Oliva present the LEARNS Act to the House Education Committee on Feb. 28, 2023. (Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate) Arkansas lawmakers ...

Lee Ran-hee's 'Third Grade Second Semester' portrays the challenging transition of vocational high school students into a demanding factory environment. The film highlights 19-year-old Chang-woo's ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana educators are celebrating the significant improvements third graders have made when it comes to literacy rates. The Indiana Department of Education called it an “unprecedented” ...

Just two years ago, Indiana faced a sobering reality: nearly 1 in 5 third-graders could not read proficiently, and our state was grappling with what many rightfully called a literacy crisis. That ...