Opinion: How We Outperformed National Reading Scores – And Kept Students at Grade Level

As reading scores remain a top concern for schools nationwide, many districts are experimenting with ability-based grouping ...
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Reading plans or retention? Area schools aren’t holding back pupils struggling to read

Thirty-six percent of third-graders at Lima schools earned proficient reading scores on their state English language arts ...
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools' third graders improve reading scores, TN test data shows

MSCS third-graders showed improvement on the 2025 TCAP English Language Arts section, with 29.2% meeting or exceeding expectations. Prior to exemptions and other interventions, 68% of MSCS ...

NC early reading gains steady, but third-grade scores decline

More North Carolina first- and second-graders are reading on grade level than just a few years ago, but the latest state data ...
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Operation Education: What is next for students who didn’t pass the IREAD test

There are thousands of students in Indiana who were in 3rd grade last school year and did not advance to the 4th grade this school year. The IREAD retention law now requires 3rd grade students to be ...
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3rd grade reading scores continue slide on 2025 M-STEP

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...
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Operation Education: You asked to see more IREAD data, and we listened

Major improvements in early literacy in Indiana in 2025 are helping fuel the excitement about what is possible in 2026. Operation Education is revisiting IREAD-3 results and zooming into more schools ...