Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Third grade can bring big emotions because kids are growing socially while still learning how to manage their feelings. Your child ...

Pamela Mason is senior lecturer in education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-chair of the Teaching and Teacher ...

As more states consider passing early literacy laws, one controversial aspect of these policies is back in the spotlight—grade retention. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia either allow ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

Want to help your third-grader master the basics of 3rd grade math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand what it means to multiply numbers – for example ...

Children’s gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are just about fully developed around this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years as your child learns ...

Union Public Schools is using early reading instruction, small-group interventions and teacher collaboration to help students ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Education announced several ways third grade students can retake the TCAP test and the appeals window for families. “Third grade is a pivotal year ...

Children try to do their homework at an evacuation shelter at a high school gymnasium in Kentwood, northeast of New Orleans on August 30, 2012 in Louisiana, where Tropical Storm Isaac has dumped more ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

Tennessee's controversial third grade reading and retention law has been in effect since 2023. Here's what years of state testing data, research and experts say about its effectiveness. How well is ...

The widespread effects of a statewide third-grade reading and retention law are quickly unfolding after parents received the results of the standardized Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program test ...