Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...

Coach Sam's Scholars is a reading literacy program that helps second and third graders in a growing number of Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools, including Almira Elementary.

A Central Valley third-grade teacher tries to give her Latino students a better understanding of Thanksgiving but gets tripped up by her Spanish. Op-Ed: 3rd-grade lesson about Thanksgiving goes ...

Maryland would join a host of states with third grade retention policies. But evidence has been mixed about the long-term effectiveness of holding students back, partly because of sparse research ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have ...

Third-grade reading scores are used by experts as an indicator of future success in life. They can predict a student’s chances of behaving well in class and graduating high school.

Maryland Superintendent Carey Wright updated a literacy policy draft to allow parents to stop their child from being held back in third grade if the child can’t read.