Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade. Those odds worsened if students were still struggling in 1st grade—only 1 in ...

Getting every Miami-Dade student reading at grade level by third grade has become a central focus for the Partnership for ...

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

The Parent Access to Supplemental Supports, or PASS, program offers $400 grants to third graders who didn't pass the STAAR ...

NEW YORK — North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA) and 3P Learning announced new results from an online summer learning camp focused on improving reading proficiency among third grade students. More ...

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 ...

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

The May 18 release of reading scores for Tennessee third graders set off a fast-moving timeline to determine if tens of thousands of public school students will be held back or not. Tennessee's third ...

Fourth grade literacy gains earned Mississippi national acclaim. But that achievement tapers off as students advance to ...