Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sophie Marie (@soph4president), a third-grade teacher in Austin, Texas, recently came under fire for certain ways she conducts her ...

A Texas teacher revealed that she was criticized by school administrators for teaching her third-grade class the true history of the Pledge of Allegiance and allowing them to protest having to say it.

Should kids be held back in third grade if they can’t read? As of this year, 18 states say yes and impose some form of retention policy linked to a child’s reading scores, according to the advocacy ...