As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

Data center construction is booming across the country, specifically rural communities The U.S. is rapidly expanding its data center construction with a large portion of new facilities coming to rural ...

TULSA, Okla. — More than a decade after Oklahoma lawmakers voted to stop holding back third-grade students who couldn’t read at grade level, the debate is back at the State Capitol, driven by ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

Surrounded by education leaders, Governor Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1778 into law, strengthening Oklahoma’s Strong ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

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 ...

The release of TCAP reading scores on May 19 set off a fast-moving timeline for thousands of Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back. A state reading and retention law hinges on third grade ...

State- and district-level Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP, test scores released July 8. The scores reveal mixed results as the effects of Tennessee's wide-reaching controversial ...