An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.

New data shows 87.3% of Hoosier third graders demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD exam in 2024-25. (Getty Images) Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest ...

Big literacy gains for Brockton's youngest readers, with third graders leading the charge. Check out the numbers.

Indiana third graders’ reading proficiency improved at a record-breaking rate in 2025, putting students’ scores on par with pre-pandemic levels. Statewide, 87.3% of third graders scored proficient on ...

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 ...

The proposal is part of the Nebraska governor's education focus this legislative session, and it has federal support.

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show no significant gains, either. Since 2021-22, the first year of student data ...

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 ...

LEADER KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT TEN. NEBRASKA CHILDREN MAY SEE A CHANGE IN THEIR READING GOALS. GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN IS PROPOSING A NEW THIRD GRADE READING BILL. GOOD EVENING. I’M JULIE CORNELL. I’M ...

After overhauling literacy policy in 2013, Mississippi went from 49th to a top 10 state in fourth-grade reading. It’s been dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” but those involved say it was more of a ...

Indiana’s latest reading assessment scores showed the largest year-to-year improvement since the state began IREAD testing in 2013, rising nearly five percentage points from last year, according to ...