Kindergarten through first grade may be a cake walk, but third grade? Ask any elementary schooler, and that's when things start to get legit. Luckily, an 8-year-old from Staten Island, New York has ...

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 ...

Mounting evidence supports an academic strategy known as acceleration, in which students who are behind are challenged with grade-level material while getting help with missing skills or knowledge.