Learn why parents and schools must work together before, during and after this critical grade to ensure the academic success of their students. Third grade is considered to be one of the most ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant’s third grade classroom are reading below grade level. When it’s time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students show vastly different ...

Studies showing that children who read below grade level by 3rd grade continue to struggle in school long afterwards have engendered a patchwork of literacy laws across the country. Many of those ...

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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 ...

Though scientists know children with strong spatial thinking skills have an edge in science, technology, engineering, and math, and that those skills are teachable, no one has formally infused them ...

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, ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is sounding the alarm about how remote learning may affect students long-term. McCrory, who’s running for U.S. Senate, talked about third-grade reading scores on ...

File photo of students at Aycock Elementary in Vance County. A new report from North Carolina education officials shows that students in all grades that are required to take annual state tests have ...