At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying map contained outdated information about 3rd-grade promotion requirements in Washington state.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

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just under three-fourths of Colorado’s third-graders are reading at grade level — a mark that has not changed much over the years, according to preliminary ...

As Arkansas educators hurry to maximize the number of third graders reading at grade level to meet a new requirement, AR Kids ...