Middletown area children who participate in a reading program are seeing “a pronounced difference” in literacy scores upon entering kindergarten, said T. Duane Gordon, executive director of the ...

Partnership for a Drug‑Free New Jersey (PDFNJ), with support from the PSEG Foundation, will distribute its Third Grade Life Choices Coloring & Activity Book to 40,000 third-grade students across ...

It always happens—just when a fad arrives in Mississippi, the fad's progenitors become less enamored of it. Take the so-called "third grade reading gate"—which requires students to pass a literacy ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. State lawmakers advanced legislation that would put fewer third graders at risk of being held ...