First, Do No Harm

The most common reason is dyslexia that has gone unidentified, leaving the child without the specific instruction required ...
Education Week

How This Teacher Sparks a Love of Reading for Pleasure

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Owings Mills, Md. - Jackie Chaney conducts her 2nd grade class with the finesse of a ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. As the ...
Education Week

Third Grade Reading Retention Is Back. Should It Be?

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...
al.com

Alabama reading scores are improving while the rest of US struggles, but thousands of students face retention

Reading scores are improving in Alabama, but thousands of third graders could still be held back this year if they can’t catch up over the summer. When adjusted to current benchmarks, about 88% of ...
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Indiana’s high stakes reading test: 2nd graders start early, 3rd graders risk retention

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) exam has been a familiar milestone for ...
EdSource

In California’s youth justice system, many high schoolers graduate with grade-school reading skills

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention facilities get high school diplomas with grade-school reading skills.