RALEIGH, N.C. — Starting in third grade, your child will begin taking standardized tests in North Carolina. What do they take and when? It all depends on the grade and school district they are in.

One in a series of occasional articles about the grades that provide the building blocks of a child's education. One of the Campbell Elementary School first-graders in Room 154, a determined child ...

The Alabama legislature passed a long awaited “first-grade readiness” bill Thursday, which would require students who did not complete kindergarten to take a test to enter the first grade. If signed ...