Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

After all retests were administered, the Mississippi Dept. of Education reported that 85 percent of all third graders passed the assessment during the 2024-2025 school year, an increase of a full ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. Mississippi's Literacy-Based Act requires third-grade students to pass the reading test to be ...

There are thousands of students in Indiana who were in 3rd grade last school year and did not advance to the 4th grade this school year. The IREAD retention law now requires 3rd grade students to be ...

Third graders in Tennessee's public schools only saw slight improvement in English language arts scores on this year's standardized state test, with 41% reaching proficiency, up from 40% last year.

State education officials said third-graders did better on the so-called third-grade reading gate test last school year than the year before.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Comprehensive Assessment of Progress third-grade scores have been released by the Alabama State Department of Education. The 2019 Alabama Literacy Act was created to ...

Michigan's third graders ― at a stage of development when stakes are high to master reading — slid in those scores on the state M-STEP test compared with 2023, while elementary schoolers largely ...

Test scores are out for Louisiana schools, and while the numbers don’t show as much growth as the last two years, students maintained recent gains. “Obviously, we understand that in a state that's ...