The FAST tests are given to students three times over the school year, but only the last one counts toward school accountability.

At Katy ISD's top elementary schools, 5th grade students master both reading and math. At Pattison Elementary, they master ...

"IREAD is really written towards an end of second grade, beginning of third grade reading level," says Concord 3rd grade teacher, Taylor Freymuth. Freymuth teaches at Oxbow Elementary School.

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 ...

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

DPS first raised the alarm about the pandemic’s effects on early literacy in the fall of 2021, when test scores showed a steep drop in the percentage of young students reading at grade level.

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

The percentage of students hitting grade-level expectations on STAAR reading tests improved in most grades and topped ...

Just under half of Louisiana’s third graders ended last school year reading below or significantly below grade level, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Education.

Washington, D.C., students showed big gains in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math. In fact, D.C. Public Schools was the only large district to show test-score gains in three of the four ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) exam has been a familiar milestone for Indiana’s third graders, but this year, students could be at risk ...

State officials said Thursday that they expect the share of third graders who are held back to be much smaller than the 23% who scored at the lowest level on the reading test, called DIBELS.