COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

Fresh findings from a national assessment have exposed a troubling reality in early education, revealing that 15% of Grade 3 pupils are unable to read a single word in their home language by the end ...

KwaZulu-Natal, however, has a better literacy story to tell: it starts with a low Grade 1 score but more than doubles it by Grade 3. The post SA’s reading crisis: Why this province’s pupils fall off ...

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 ...