Key Takeaways New research suggests that impulsivity and hyperactivity in elementary school leads to worse academic performance years laterKids who mastered self-control tended to get better grades ...

Good Cause Exemptions are granted for a variety of reasons, according to the Indiana Department of Education. The three main categories for consideration include students in special education, ...

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, ...

Lori Robertson knew the stakes were high. Under a new Louisiana law, the third graders she taught this summer at J.B. Nachman Elementary School in Alexandria would have to pass a reading test or be ...

The majority of Little Rock School District third graders who did not pass an end-of-year literacy test were granted ...

Students in Shelby Lattimore’s third grade class know the rules: Pay your desk and chair rent on time and if you don’t have next month’s rent in your wallet, you can’t buy any rewards. The ...

The May 18 release of reading scores for Tennessee third graders set off a fast-moving timeline to determine if tens of thousands of public school students will be held back or not. Tennessee's third ...

More than 40,000 Tennessee third graders were impacted by the state reading law this year. See how scores panned out for ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...