In her 23 years teaching Lakeland School District third graders, Josefa Dombrosky has never seen a group of students quite like this. Neither have third-grade teachers across Northeast Pennsylvania ...

Inspired by Mississippi, more states are holding back third graders who struggle to read. But a new research paper shows that this policy can have harmful long-run consequences for those students.

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Third Grade Learning Games 15 fun and educational games to help your child learn 3rd Grade lessons! Teach them multiplication, division, grammar, geometry, ...

Harmony Fletcher likes to read and does so every night, but that was not enough to help her pass the English-Language Arts portion of Tennessee’s assessment exam (TCAP) last spring, her mother, ...

With nearly 60% of California children not meeting state reading standards by the third grade, strong parent-teacher partnerships and a statewide shift toward evidence-based reading strategies are ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the reading skills of Ohio's youngest students, according to state data. The third-grade reading proficiency decreased statewide from 67% in the 2018 ...

Children who received Early Intervention (EI) services before age 3 were more likely to meet third-grade academic standards ...

Children who enter kindergarten prepared through early learning are far more likely to read proficiently by third grade ...

Only 35%25 of fourth graders across the country are proficient in reading About 30 states have adopted measures to try to meet reading milestone 15 states and D.C. have strict retention policies on ...

In a comment on my recent post posing Critical Questions about the Common Core, one reader wrote: “I don’t see any harm in requiring all students to be able to recite their multiplication tables from ...