The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

In general, a school with a lower poverty rate is going to have higher test scores than one that serves a more disadvantaged group of students. But that may or may not be due to anything the schools ...