The last school term is often the time when parents and their children start looking towards the following year. This is especially true for children in Grade R who will be embarking on the start of ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

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, ...

Concern over a new requirement that third graders read at grade-level to move on to fourth grade has created a "sense of ...

State Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, is chairman of the education committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Many Tennessee families were shocked this spring when they found out their children ...

Third grade students in California’s lowest performing schools are doing better at reading, thanks to the Elementary Literacy Support Block Grant funding and a new focus on curriculum materials based ...

After all retests were administered, the Mississippi Dept. of Education reported that 85 percent of all third graders passed ...