If you’ve ever been in a room full of third-graders, you must know it’s like being in the audience of a comedy show. Mr.

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

About 5.6% of Michigan's third graders were eligible to be held back this school year due to low reading scores, according to a report from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation ...

What sounds great in a bill can lose some of its luster in a law. "Schoolhouse Rocks" never told us that. In 2023, when the Arkansas Legislature passed Gov. Sarah Sanders' signature legislation, known ...

Achieving adequate reading proficiency by the third grade has always been a benchmark in primary education, and the implementation of the Alabama Literacy Act makes it all the more important. Starting ...

Virginia has made reading by third grade a priority. Now it is time to make it a top priority. Our state has one of the most ...

Among Door County schools, only Southern Door School District finished with a worse percentage than the state average, ...

According to the 2023 report from the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University, nearly 30% of third-graders do not know how to read at the appropriate grade level, even ...

A group of 125 third-graders from Keystone Elementary School visited the LaGrange Historical Society Oct. 29 for an engaging and hands-on history lesson. The LaGrange Historical Society, which is ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Reading is a skill set that state educators have closely monitored for decades, but recent state statistics have left parents and educators in Arkansas concerned. "As of 2023, ACT ...

The halls of Pleasant Valley Elementary School in Novato were filled with chattering and excitement Friday morning as third-graders lined up, American flags in hand, to meet a group of local veterans.