LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Friday repealing a law that required third grade students to be held back if they had low reading scores. The so-called Read by Grade Three Law ...

EdSource · How a charter school serving adults became embroiled in scandal and sparked calls for reform State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond’s announced a new effort last week to ...

Five years ago, the Bethlehem Area School District laid out a bold goal -- it wanted to have all of its students reading on grade level by third grade -- and set out to make that happen. The district ...

"When it comes to the most foundational skill required for full participation in civic and economic life — the ability to ...

The first bill a lawmaker introduces usually indicates where that person’s priorities lie. For Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, that’s fixing Michigan’s grade three reading law which requires schools ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – School district leaders in the greater Fort Wayne area are reacting to a state bill that focuses on making sure students can read proficiently by the end of 3rd grade.

Michigan students would no longer have to repeat the third grade if they're not reading at grade level under a bill that passed the House Tuesday. Instead, those students would receive extra help in ...

Carson City School District’s literacy plan to improve early reading interventions for kindergarteners through third graders is working well, but professional learning for teachers to keep fourth and ...

More than three full school years into Michigan's controversial Read by Grade Three law, 52% of Michigan's third-grade students had a "reading deficiency" between first and third grade and the rates ...

The Michigan Senate has taken a big step toward undoing an unpopular GOP-backed rule requiring districts to flag poor readers in third grade to be held back for a year. The Senate Education Committee ...

Correction: This original version of this column misnamed the state agency that will inform parents whose children are subject to retention. It is the state Center for Educational Performance and ...