or if they’ve got children in this year’s third grade– what they need to do is just focus on those reading skills,” explained ...

The Maryland State Board of Education gave final approval Tuesday to a controversial literacy policy that calls for holding back third grade students who aren’t meeting reading standards ...

Fourteen educators — Ahtna, Aleut, Alutiiq, Gwich’in Athabascan, Inupiaq, Tlingit and Yup’ik — developed reading standards that lay out what students from kindergarten through third grade ...