SALT LAKE CITY — Third grade is a defining period in a child's educational development. Many say it's that pivotal academic year when a young student shifts from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First lady Abby Cox reads a book to the kids as she and Gov. Spencer Cox welcome kids from Polk Elementary in Ogden into the ...

Oklahoma experienced some of the steepest budget cuts to education in the nation and an exodus of tens of thousands of ...

Students at elementary schools at APS have improved their reading, including students identified in a landmark lawsuit.

Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" ...

A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

The educators at J.B. Nachman Elementary School knew they had to work fast. Several students at the Alexandria school posted low reading scores last spring, putting them at risk of having to repeat ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired ...

The MCAS English language arts exam tests how students are doing relative to grade-level standards in reading, writing and ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading assessment for the 2024-25 school year, according to new data released Thursday by the Mississippi Department of Education.