State data released Wednesday show 3.6% of third graders who took the 2025 IREAD did not pass and did not qualify for an exemption. (Pixabay) About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade ...

About 3,000 Indiana students are repeating third grade this school year for not meeting the state’s reading proficiency standards. Data released Wednesday by the Indiana Department of Education showed ...

Kansas Wesleyan University will host the Kansas Press Association’s Sunflower State Spelling Bee for the third consecutive year. The event is set for March 21, 2026, in Sams Chapel, according to a ...

AND EFFICIENTLY. >> HOUSE AND SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE LEADERS REVEALING THOUSANDS OF ARKANSAS THIRD GRADERS ARE AT RISK OF RETENTION DUE TO READING INSUFFICIENCY. NOW THERE’S A NEW REQUIREMENT FOR ...

Indiana's third-grade literacy rates have seen a significant boost, according to the latest test results. The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination assessment revealed a nearly 5 percent ...

Third grade reading levels have dropped again, according to data from the Michigan Department of Education. 38.9% of tested students scored proficient or advanced on the tests that were taken in the ...

INDIANA — Indiana third graders’ reading proficiency improved at a record-breaking rate this year, putting students’ scores on par with pre-pandemic levels. Statewide, 87.3% of third graders scored ...

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Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest year-to-year improvement since the state began IREAD testing in 2013, rising nearly five percentage points from last year, according to ...

State- and district-level Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP, test scores released July 8. The scores reveal mixed results as the effects of Tennessee's wide-reaching controversial ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...