The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

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 ...

Third-grade teachers at one Oklahoma City school say their students are in desperate need of books to read at home. They say the lack of books puts their students in danger of not passing ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. - An Arizona elementary school student has accomplished a lot and he's only in third grade. Greyson is only in third grade and has already written 31 picture books. He writes about ...

"Middle grade is dead! Middle grade is dead!” the press proclaims. And while it’s true that a 2024 report from Circana BookScan showed that print unit sales of middle grade books fell 5% in the first ...

For the past 20+ years, the Rotary Club of Indio has presented all third graders in the city of Indio with either a dictionary or a book of their own. That adds up to 14 elementary schools, including ...