A group of Dowling Elementary School third-graders get a chance to meet with Principal Julie Marshall every day for Third Grade Reading Club. Marshall met with a group of eight on a recent Tuesday ...

Third graders at Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School are continuing to strengthen their literacy skills and ...

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 ...

Cheezits, Vitamin Water and Fruit Roll-Ups -- that was the fare provided at book club. Some of you may serve wine and gouda, but not at 3rd grade book club. At this gathering of 8-year-old girls, the ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...