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The Missouri legislature passed a bill this year that would add "grade level" as a level of overall mastery when scoring MAP ...

More than 4,000 third graders are enrolled in summer programming at MNPS as the effects of the state reading law unfold.

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More than a dozen states have enacted laws banning public school educators from teaching youngsters to read using an approach that’s been popular for decades. The method, known as “three-cueing,” ...