At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the ...

After checking out books from the Stanislaus County Library’s Salida branch, Liberty Marshall, 6, right, and sister Emmeline, 5, look at children’s books Monday. The Stanislaus READS initiative is an ...

PROVIDENCE — Slightly more than one-third of all third-graders are meeting Rhode Island's standards in reading. Forty percent of those same students are reading well below grade level. And less than ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

Indianapolis Public Schools celebrates a boost in reading proficiency, thanks to collaboration with Indianapolis Public ...

We know children who are struggling readers in third grade are at risk of dropping out of school. We also know children of poverty are at higher risk of academic failure. So how do those two factors ...

As many as 1,800 Alabama third graders will repeat the grade because they aren’t reading well enough to move on to fourth grade, state superintendent Eric Mackey said Thursday. It’s a pivotal moment ...

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