BY TIM WILLERT twillert@opubco.com
The pressure is on for thousands of third-graders who will get held back if they can't pass a reading test in April.
Wilbur House, director of curriculum development for Oklahoma City Public Schools, said Monday the performance on the test was so bad last year that 869 children would have been forced to repeat third grade.
This is the first year students actually will get held back if they don't pass the test, so students, teachers and parents are all feeling the pressure.
“It is a tragedy when a child in our public schools cannot read,” state schools Superintendent Janet Barresi told a gathering at the Capitol on Monday.
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