CASD's plan combines professional development, revamped instructional models, and tools to help more students ready by end of third grade.

As the school year moves forward, state legislators around the country are increasingly talking about holding students back.

SB241 is not about holding children back in a broken, hobbled system. It is about fixing the system so thoroughly that retention becomes rare.

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

About 23% of third graders, or nearly 12,000 students, scored below the required reading level last spring. But fewer than 3% were ultimately held back, according to newly provided state data.

United Way is seeking more than 1,000 volunteers for this year’s March 6 event to help improve reading skills across our ...

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...

Georgia lawmakers are advancing legislation to boost the state’s literacy rates as local school districts continue efforts to ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

A new provision in the Arkansas LEARNS Act that took effect at the start of the school year will force students to repeat the ...

Lawmakers under the Gold Dome at the Georgia State Capitol are advancing a sweeping proposal aimed at improving reading ...