Learn why parents and schools must work together before, during and after this critical grade to ensure the academic success of their students. Third grade is considered to be one of the most ...

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Though scientists know children with strong spatial thinking skills have an edge in science, technology, engineering, and math, and that those skills are teachable, no one has formally infused them ...

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show ...

Learning to read is widely considered the bridge to later academic success. In hopes of ensuring that success, more than a dozen states, including Florida, require students to pass a reading test to ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state.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

JACKSON, Miss. - Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed their 2024-2025 reading assessments after the school ...

Of the 10,663 third graders who did not pass the IREAD test, 6,950 were able to advance to fourth grade with a good cause ...

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced 85% of third graders passed the third-grade reading assessment after the final retest for the 2024-25 school year. They said the ...

From 2024 to 2025, academic achievement improved across Frederick County Public Schools, including in third grade reading and ...