Alabama’s school chief said Thursday that 10,000 or more third graders could be at risk of being held back this summer under new reading benchmarks to move to fourth grade. The high-stakes requirement ...

A student in Muncie, Ind., receives live virtual tutoring from Reading Futures. Forty percent of fourth graders and 33 percent of eighth graders in the U.S. did not meet benchmarks for basic reading ...

Some Alabama school districts made big gains on the state’s third grade reading test, even as expectations grew tougher, but local districts generally saw a slight drop in the percentage of third ...