Grade retention: Mississippi mandated that schools hold back third-grade students who fail a reading test and give them extra services. Is it helping?

Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don't meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures.

New research on the impact of retention is complicating states' approaches to retaining 3rd graders who aren't yet proficient.

Early elementary school is when kids learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills.

Students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through eighth grades, a new ...

Boston University researchers found retained third graders who got extra support saw substantial gains in their English-Language Arts skills by sixth grade compared to students narrowly promoted ...

Third Grade Swim is funded entirely by annual gifts and grants. Hatch says this fulfills Ray and Joan Kroc’s mission to give kids in North Idaho easy access to swim lessons.

A new bill pre-filed for the upcoming Legislative session would require kids to start school at age 5, effectively mandating kindergarten for all kids either in the public, private or home-school ...

The Ohio House passed a bill that would end the requirement that third-grade students repeat the grade if they don’t score at least “proficient” on the English language arts standardized test.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Columbus and Franklin County officials are working to ensure that each child can successfully read by the third grade. The initiative is called “Success By Third… ...

Harmony Fletcher likes to read and does so every night, but that was not enough to help her pass the English-Language Arts portion of Tennessee’s assessment exam last spring, her mother, Shaneta ...