Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

Last year, Indian River County tied for the highest scores in third grade reading across all Florida districts. It came in ...

One of third grade teacher Anne Harris’ students shuffled into class at Glenfair Elementary clutching a school-provided yogurt and staring at the floor on an overcast morning this spring. Harris could ...

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, ...

Georgia’s public elementary schools are preparing to implement a significant curriculum change that will affect thousands of students across the state beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year. The ...

The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has confirmed independent research that it significantly boosted reading skills ...

MSCS's Summer Learning Academy is mandatory for some third-graders based on TCAP scores. Around 3,100 third-graders are enrolled in the summer program, but the number required due to the reading law ...