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Indiana Department of Education releases results from IREAD-3

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The Indiana Department of Education has released results from the 2021-2022 Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) assessment, which show that nearly one in five Hoosier students have not mastered foundational reading skills by the end of third grade.
Statewide, results show that more than 65,000 of Indiana’s third grade students – or 81.6% – demonstrated proficient reading skills on the assessment. This is a modest improvement of 0.4 percentage points over results for the 2020-2021 school year. Overall, results remain 5.7 percentage points below pre-pandemic proficiency rates from the 2018-2019 school year, the last data set available prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While some student populations experienced a significant improvement in reading skills, other student populations will need renewed, intentional support to become strong readers. In total, more than 14,000 third grade students – or 18.4% – will need additional support to build their reading skills to meet grade-level reading standards. Reading proficiency declined overall for third grade students receiving free or reduced-price meals, special education students and English learners. Despite Black and Hispanic students experiencing a 2.1 percentage point and 1 percentage point increase respectively, their proficiency rates remain significantly below their grade level peers.
For the first time, schools were also provided an opportunity to have their second grade students participate in the IREAD-3 assessment, with the goal of gaining an earlier indicator of whether students are on track as they learn how to read. Statewide, nearly 400 elementary schools across the state opted in, with more than 20,000 second grade students participating. Of these second grade students, 62% either passed the assessment or are on track to pass next year.

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1 comment

Charles U Farley August 11, 2022 at 8:42 am

“Despite Black and Hispanic students experiencing a 2.1 percentage point and 1 percentage point increase respectively, their proficiency rates remain significantly below their grade level peers”

If you don’t speak proper English at home, your kids will have a harder time learning it in school. This should be obvious.

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