There are 8 article(s) tagged third-grade retention:

• March 2024

  • Tennessee bill to ease reading law’s retention policy for 4th graders clears first hurdle

    State lawmakers advanced legislation Tuesday that would put fewer fourth graders at risk of being held back this year under Tennessee’s 2021 reading law.

    By Marta W. Aldrich March 20, 2024

• May 2023

  • Germantown has Tennessee’s highest third grade language arts proficiency

    TCAP test results shows nearly 80% of the Germantown school district’s third graders scored proficiently on the English language arts portion. Tennessee Department of Education released district-level data Wednesday.

    By Abigail Warren May 24, 2023

• March 2023

  • Amendment to give third graders another route to fourth grade passes Senate committee

    A new state bill working its way through the state legislature would provide options for deciding when to implement the third-grade retention process.

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    Amendment to controversial third grade law passes first legal hurdle

    By Aarron Fleming March 15, 2023

  • Amendment to controversial third grade law passes first legal hurdle

    The amendment would allow students to use their most recent benchmark test score to show they are proficient in reading and move on to the next grade.

    By Aarron Fleming, Ian Round March 15, 2023

• August 2022

  • One day, one test: Keeping score isn’t as easy as 1, 2, 3

    Even as Tennessee moves forward with a law that could hold back tens of thousands of third graders, there is widespread misunderstanding about what it even means to read at “grade level.”

    By David Waters August 21, 2022

  • One day, one test: New third-grade retention law goes into effect

    A new state law is raising the pressure on local public and charter schools. Third graders who “flunk” next spring’s TNReady reading test — and generally two-thirds of them in Tennessee do — are eligible to be retained in third grade next year. 

    By David Waters August 17, 2022

• March 2021

  • Letters to the Editor: Grade retention and protecting the aquifer

    Paul Thomas says holding back third-graders can create long-lasting problems, and another letter writer, Duffy-Marie Arnoult, says we must protect the Memphis Sands Aquifer.

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Grade retention harms children

    “Tennessee must not fall prey to trendy political gimmicks that harm children and do not address the needs of those children learning to read.”

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021