Page 13 - Grade Three News Today

Two winners last week here on the Sunday blog and hopefully more to follow with four domestic selections and, firstly, a fancy for the Prix De l’Arc De Triomphe

Introduction For background, the Boston school system had for many years grappled with the problem of how to assign students to Boston's public schools that could both let children attend one of the few good schools in the system while also...

Bulawayo Schools Introduce Chinese Language As Subject... Some schools in Bulawayo are set to introduce Chinese language...

Rather than hold back third graders, the Detroit Public Schools Community District is focused on providing intensive literacy tutoring and academic support for third graders below grade level in reading. 

Queen’s College continues to retain its place as Guyana’s top school as one of its students received the highest number of Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) passes in the country this year. Education Minister Priya Manickchand

According to Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 5.8% of third graders were eligible to be retained based on their spring reading test scores.

Scores in math and English/Language Arts were mostly down this year compared to before the pandemic on the Michigan standardized test known as M-STEP.  The results are likely to heavily impact education spending priorities.

Roughly 5,650 Michigan students received reading scores low enough that they could be required to repeat third grade.

According to Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 5.8% of third graders were eligible to be retained based on their spring reading test scores.

The number of Michigan third graders who failed the states reading test and can be held back rose this year, Michigan State University found.