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 ...

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

Parents are stressed, and kids are coming home crying. These are the emotions more families say they're experiencing this summer because of a new law that will likely mean more third graders are kept ...

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Sullivan County Board of Education is urging state lawmakers to put power back in local hands. The board voted 6-1 to send a resolution to the General Assembly asking ...

SEYMOUR, Tenn. (WATE) – The regular school year has come to an end but for some students, they just wrapped up their first week of summer school. Most of our area school systems offer summer classes ...

The EPIC report notes 548 third graders were retained last year, double the number from the previous year prior. All told, 5,648 students third-grade pupils were at or below 1,252 points on the M-STEP ...

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 ...