Third grade students at Fanny Coppin Elementary gathered Wednesday to read the first of 20 books they’ll read in the next 20 weeks. The School District of Philadelphia will give a prize to every third ...

Third graders at Balboa Elementary got five free books Wednesday morning through ABC 10News' Story Time campaign. They also got a special treat as ABC 10News anchor Jared Aarons read to them in class.

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third graders in JPS who pass the state ...

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 ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...