More than half of the third-grade students read at a sixth-grade level.

Ronald Henry, a teacher at Douglass, believes his third-grade students have a healthy fear of guns.

Last year, Grafflin had 98 percent of third-grade students at or above what the state considers typical for that grade level.

Last year, 72.6 percent of third-grade students read at or above the state minimum, up 13 percentage points from two years earlier.

On Saturdays third-grade Japanese students silently stand and bow to their teacher.

For example, 85 percent of third-grade students statewide met the standards, but that number fell to 58 percent in the eighth grade.

He said he has talked to the principal of a nearby grammar school about expanding the program to include third-grade students.

The same is not true of my third-grade students in Washington Heights.

Last year, 89 percent of the third-grade students in Long Beach scored above the state reference point.

There, 93 percent of the third-grade students were reading at grade level in 1997 compared with 52 percent in 1996.