Grant Wood Elementary School in the Cedar Rapids Community School District has earned national recognition for its ...

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 ...

Come with me on a full tour of my third grade classroom before students arrive. I walk through our first day "great classroom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee's controversial third grade reading and retention law has been in effect since 2023. But is it working?