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Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...
The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade ...
Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A pandemic-related exception to the requirement that students repeat the third grade if they’re not reading proficiently ends with this academic year, and state lawmakers are ...
These laws are often called third-grade reading retention policies. They say, if a student cannot read at grade level, they either repeat third grade or receive interventions to catch up.
The testing window for the IREAD-3 assessment opens in just a few days. Legislation passed last year requires 3rd grade students to be retained if they do not pass the Indiana reading assessment.
State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, the bill sponsor and a former teacher, called Michigan's reading law "state-mandated mass flunking of third grade students based on one reading test score." ...
Most notably, the amendments raised third-grade reading-level expectations for the 2018-19 school year but also added mandatory individual reading plans for K-3 students who show reading deficiencies.
If lawmakers don’t nix the retention component of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, it will restart next school year. Read: Students must repeat 3rd grade if they don’t read proficiently.
MSCS improved third-grade reading proficiency by almost 4% between 2023 and 2024. The second week of Memphis-Shelby County Schools' Summer Learning Academy wraps up June 13.
Meanwhile, Texas’ fourth-grade reading scores ranked 37th in the nation, even as students have started to rebound from learning disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.