Held back, but not helped
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.
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