After checking out books from the Stanislaus County Library’s Salida branch, Liberty Marshall, 6, right, and sister Emmeline, 5, look at children’s books Monday. The Stanislaus READS initiative is an ...

Educators have known for decades that learning how to read by the third grade is a critical milestone for children. Students who fall too far behind by the third grade rarely catch up. One recent ...

PROVIDENCE — Slightly more than one-third of all third-graders are meeting Rhode Island's standards in reading. Forty percent of those same students are reading well below grade level. And less than ...

Reading scores for Erie third-graders are improving. And that's good news for their future prospects in school and beyond. Third grade is a kind of watershed year in education. Through third grade, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the reading skills of Ohio's youngest students, according to state data. The third-grade reading proficiency decreased statewide from 67% in the 2018 ...

Black students saw the highest increase in literacy rates, with a 3.2 percentage point increase from last year's results. More than 67,000 Indiana third graders passed the state's reading skills ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state. Washington’s state education ...

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 ...

About two in five third graders participating in the second round of testing for Mississippi’s literacy promotion test scored high enough to move on to the fourth grade, the state Department of ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Este artículo está disponible en español.