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‘Growing education crisis’: MI fourth grade reading levels drop, study finds
DATE: January 10, 2023
“We do see it nationally and in a lot of states … scores decreasing for that fourth grade reading test over that time,” said Tara Kilbride, the assistant research director at EPIC. “But the decrease in Michigan was at a much steeper rate. It was a steeper decline, which is certainly concerning.”
“It’s certainly unprecedented within my experience and within Michigan’s education data,” Kilbride added.
Kilbride said her research center also found non-white and lower-income students struggling the most.
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