More than a majority of American 4th graders and 8th graders are not meeting reading and math benchmarks, including Ohioans, according to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2024 Kids Count Data ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Tennessee students continued to show post-pandemic progress on statewide testing this year, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Data shows that English/Language Arts scores for third and fourth-grade students in Memphis Shelby County Schools increased slightly since the previous year. Third graders’ scores on ...

UPDATE, June 25: This story has been edited to include comments from Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde. A sharp spike in the number of Texas students who scored a zero on the writing ...

Two thirds of North Carolina kindergarten through third graders met reading test benchmarks at the end of the 2023-24 school year, about the same share as at the end of the last year. But the scores ...

A bill leaving decisions on holding back thousands of fourth graders affected by Tennessee's controversial reading law up to schools and parents passed the state legislature on Thursday. A ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The controversial fourth-grade retention law has been updated to give struggling readers more options to move to the next grade level. Previously, the law said if a child ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Across Ohio, school districts are promoting thousands of third graders who didn’t meet state reading benchmarks, placing unprecedented demands on limited resources for reading ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They only have five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Mimicking last year's outcome, this year's TCAP scores showed that more than half of Tennessee third graders aren't meeting reading expectations. The Tennessee Department of ...