Correction: This article has been updated to show that 91.9% of Shelby County’s third grade students scored high enough to ...

Can your behavior in third grade predict outcomes in high school and beyond? A new study, published in Developmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alabama’s third-graders largely held their ground on state reading assessments in the 2025-26 school year, with 88.2% of ...

The release of TCAP reading scores set off a fast-moving timeline for Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back.

Self-management is the ability to control your actions and emotions, and being able to recognize emotions is a key building block of self-management. It is a social-emotional skill that is associated ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Just over a decade ago, state lawmakers made an ambitious pledge to Ohioans that every child would read proficiently by the end of third grade. Under legislation known as the Third ...

The latest STAAR scores reveal progress in reading but ongoing struggles in math.

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