Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: Alabama education officials will share data about third grade reading progress Thursday, ...

Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...

Alabama’s reading scores are improving, but students’ results vary widely between schools and districts. AL.com analyzed the latest 2025 spring reading scores for third- and second-grade students. In ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. Mississippi's ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Schools saw slightly lower scores on the 2021 state standardized reading test for third-graders compared to 2019. Educators say the dips are expected amid an ongoing pandemic that ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

According to Oklahoma Department of Education, about 80 percent of the state’s third-graders passed reading tests with scores good enough to allow them to move up ...

Not every third-grader who fails the reading test and is retained will repeat the entire third-grade year. Under the test-based retention law, every school district must adopt its own policy to guide ...

MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristen Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books, stories about vampires and even a college-level anatomy textbook that her mother is studying to become ...