Does requiring struggling students to repeat 3rd grade lead to better reading results? It's complicated.

Gov. Kay Ivey's Office announced that 55 new classrooms will be funded through the Pre-K through 3rd Grade for the 2025-2026 school year.

These laws are often called third-grade reading retention policies. They say, if a student cannot read at grade level, they either repeat third grade or receive interventions to catch up.

Why the focus on third grade? Tennessee’s legislature passed the new law in 2021, as the nation was emerging from months of disruption caused by the pandemic.

The study, “Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation,” will be posted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation here.

The Integrated Approach to Early Learning program aims to use consistent approaches to teaching during the critical early grades.

More often, schools have nestled a competency-based philosophy within their existing operations, maintaining their grade-level arrangements while adapting how they assess student learning.

The testing window for the IREAD-3 assessment opens in just a few days. Legislation passed last year requires 3rd grade students to be retained if they do not pass the Indiana reading assessment.

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