This September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

Third graders in Maryland who don’t read on grade level by the end of the school year may find themselves repeating the grade. Maryland’s department of education is considering enacting a statewide ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A pandemic-related exception to the requirement that students repeat the third grade if they’re not reading proficiently ends with this academic year, and state lawmakers are ...

Third grade students at Fanny Coppin Elementary gathered Wednesday to read the first of 20 books they’ll read in the next 20 weeks. The School District of Philadelphia will give a prize to every third ...

Savannah-Chatham schools and the Chatham Education Alliance launch the “Moonshot” literacy initiative aiming for 95% of third-graders reading on grade level within five years.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Third grade is a defining period in a child's educational development. Many say it's that pivotal academic year when a young student shifts from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Parents and teachers are on the frontlines of California’s literacy crisis amid a national debate on how best to teach reading. Both groups often lack the tools to get involved and be heard. This ...

Thursday, the Mississippi Department of Education released the results from the first round of this year's third-grade reading assessment.Students took that test last month. On the first try, 75.7% ...

As Louisiana tries to boost literacy rates by improving how schools teach reading, a coalition of New Orleans groups is trying to raise awareness of other factors — like attendance and preschool — ...

Only 36% of Arizona third graders are reading proficiently, according to the Arizona Progress Meter. What can be changed to ...