With changes to legislation and a third-grade retention law in effect, the Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination, or IREAD, test has become a major topic of conversation. The first round of ...

The IREAD test, measuring foundational reading skills, is now mandatory for all Indiana third-graders and will be used to determine grade promotion. Parents are encouraged to read with their children ...

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 ...

ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — The summer testing window for IREAD-3 is now open for third grade students who did not pass the reading assessment in March. Students will have two opportunities to take ...

Indiana students’ reading scores have been virtually unchanged for three years, according to new test data, underscoring fears about students’ struggles to recover from the pandemic More than four out ...

A historically difficult hurdle for English language learners is returning next month with bigger stakes – pass Indiana’s third grade reading assessment or risk being held back. Today’s third graders ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. Indiana students’ reading scores have been virtually unchanged for three years, according to new test data, underscoring fears about students’ ...

New data shows 87.3% of Hoosier third graders demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD exam in 2024-25. (Getty Images) Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest ...

New results on the state’s third-grade reading assessment show slight improvement from last year, but students are still far from pre-COVID levels of proficiency. Nearly one in five Indiana students, ...

More than half of Indiana's second graders took the IREAD-3 test used to measure third graders' reading ability. The IREAD-3 test measures third graders’ reading aptitude and helps determine if they ...