As states pass laws requiring schools to follow the “science of reading,” one aspect of these policies has stirred up particular controversy: Holding back struggling readers who don’t reach ...

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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, ...

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 ...

With the teeth in Michigan's third grade retention law ready to sink in this school year, results from the state's annual literacy exam remain bleak: nearly 55% of third grade students failed the test ...

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 ...

When a child repeats a grade, it reflects positively on the district. But for the individual, it can be an irreversible step backward. Monkey Business Images/ Shutterstock When it comes to education ...

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, ...

Access to state-supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and ...

Lynette Stant teaches third grade in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community in Arizona. For our Learning Curve series, she shares what a week of virtual learning is like. Throughout the school ...

One hundred eighty-five pages. That’s the length of Culver City Unified School District’s LCAP — our Local Control Accountability Plan. Graphs, numbers, charts, data. I flip through the pages, ...