For Utah youngsters finishing third grade without proficient reading skills, research warns that academic troubles await. And ...

Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Utah aims to get 80% of its third graders reading proficiently by 2030, but in the last decade, there’s been little ...

Students are using Google Lens to cheat, kids are being taught to read by AI, and teachers are raising alarms about failing ...

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

Kindergarten test scores can be an important warning sign, researchers said, and early gaps don't just clear up on their own.

Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Last year, Indian River County tied for the highest scores in third grade reading across all Florida districts. It came in ...