Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.
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