Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple ...

The third- through eighth-grade scores in Houston ISD largely mirrored statewide trends, with the district performing ...

Michigan's third graders ― at a stage of development when stakes are high to master reading — slid in those scores on the state M-STEP test compared with 2023, while elementary schoolers largely ...

In last year’s academic achievement assessment, 1 out of 7 third-year middle school students remained at the lowest level in ...

Texas elementary and middle school students showed improvement in social studies and math, but little to no growth in reading ...