EPIC IN THE NEWS
Democratic-led Senate education panel votes to reform third-grade reading law
DATE: January 31, 2023
“The most recent meta analysis on retention shows that there is actually zero effect on student achievement,” said Katharine Strunk, director of Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC).
Strunk notes that other studies show that students who are retained early in their education have lower social-emotional development, increased likelihood of disciplinary incidents, lower graduation rates and a higher likelihood of criminal activity later in life.
Strunk also cited a recent EPIC report that shows retention-eligible Black students were retained at higher rates than students of any other race or ethnicity in 2021-22 and were 2.4 times as likely to retain Black than white students.
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