11.   Ashlie recalls that the shame and sadness began when she was in the third grade.

12.   At the start of the third grade, Notre Dame researchers found only a small gap between boys and girls in the accuracy of their ratings.

13.   Bailey will be in the third grade at Valley Cathedral Christian School.

14.   Beginning in about third grade, when children are enamored of the power their words and behaviors have to hurt or exclude peers, fights escalate from built-up tension.

15.   Beginning immediately, no child will leave third grade who cannot read at grade level.

16.   Bob Collins, director of instruction for the Los Angeles Unified School District, said that by third grade, many students have already fallen off the UC track.

17.   Both the House and Senate versions of the education bill, now in conference committee, require every child to read by third grade.

18.   A child who still failed the test after three chances would be subject to repeating third grade.

19.   A Bush-backed initiative is being implemented to make sure that all students can read by the time they leave the third grade.

20.   A. You are not in third grade, and your co-worker is not a schoolyard bully who keeps stealing your lunch money.