Students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through eighth grades, a new ...

Lawmakers approved changes to a third grade retention law that could require nearly two-thirds of third graders to take tutoring or repeat the grade.

Michigan’s 3rd grade reading retention policy had inequitable impacts, holding back Black and low-income students disproportionately among students whose standardized test scores made them ...