New data shows the impact of Indiana's new IREAD retention law that prevents third graders from promoting if they can't pass ...

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State education leaders said last week 3,040 students are repeating third grade because they didn’t pass the state’s reading proficiency exam called IREAD.

The Vigo County School Corp. had 26 children retained in third grade for not meeting the state’s reading proficiency standards, according to Indiana Department of Education data. The state has made ...

Of the 10,663 third graders who did not pass the IREAD test, 6,950 were able to advance to fourth grade with a good cause ...

About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this year under a new state law that requires students to pass the ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

About 3,000 Indiana students are repeating third grade this year after failing to meet the state's new reading proficiency ...

Indiana is now back at pre-pandemic levels when it comes to literacy rates of thrd graders.But new data from the Department ...

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 ...