40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. First grade in particular — “the ...

A program designed to remove barriers to literacy by putting books into the hands and homes of first and second-grade students in five Columbia elementary schools.

A new nationwide study has found that children entering first grade in 2013 had significantly better reading skills than similar students had just 12 years earlier. Researchers say this means that ...

The bill decreases the number of Tennessee third graders at risk of being held back due to a 2021 reading law.

He’s a 3rd grader and reads at a 5th/6th grade level. The struggling readers I work with overcome their reading problems even though I never ask them to decode a single word.

There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.

Learn more about the test Tennessee is using to determine whether third graders should be held back from fourth grade.

The law required holding back third graders who failed a reading proficiency test. Proponents of striking retention requirement called it punitive.

First graders in the Reading Recovery program dramatically improved in their first year, according to the initial report of an Investing in Innovation evaluation of the intervention.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill that repeals a requirement mandating students be held back if they are unable to read by the third grade.