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Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn’t Necessarily Hold Them Back

MindShift

Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures. For one thing, they will earn more money on average over a lifetime with that head start into the workforce.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. From its founding in 2003, Empower’s team has used custom scripts and queries to pull data from SISs to create exportable files to send to their customers nightly.

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