How fourth, fifth graders fared on the 2025 TCAP The state reading law took effect in 2023. Only 1.2% of third graders were ultimately held back that year, while just 0.88% were held back in 2024.

Three full years of state testing are on the books since Tennessee enacted its controversial third grade reading law. But while there are some signs of progress in reading proficiency for public ...

The Tennessee Department of Education released third grade results on the English language arts portion of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP, to districts on May 19.

More than half of Tennessee's public school third graders fell short of the state's reading benchmark on this year's TCAP test.

Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.

In 2024, 27% of MSCS third graders scored proficiently on the ELA portion of the TCAP tests. From 2023 to 2024, the district had improved its third-grade reading scores by almost 4%.

Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed reading scores for more than 168,000 students who were 3rd graders in Michigan during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 ...