READ BY GRADE THREE

EPIC is studying how Michigan’s early literacy law is being implemented across the state and its impacts on students and educators.

In May 2018, the State Board of Education requested an evaluation of the Read by Grade Three (RBG3) law. To support this project, Education Policy Innovation Collaborative joined with our Michigan Education Research Institute partners (Michigan Department of Education, Center for Educational Performance and Information, and Michigan Education Data Center) to seek funding. Our evaluation was awarded grants totaling $5.5 million over five years from the US Department of Education Institute for Education Sciences and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation beginning on September 1, 2019.

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Student teacher reads to a class of young students.

Read by Grade Three Retention Eligibility: 2023 Update

This report examines the rates and characteristics of students who could be required to repeat the 3rd grade based on their ELA M-STEP scores at the end of 2022-23.

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Reports: RBG3

The Education Policy Innovation Collaborative publishes reports on a rolling basis for our partners.

In The Media: RBG3

Education Policy Innovation Collaborative’s RBG3 research features in the media.

Detroit schools seek contract extension with Beyond Basics to improve reading skills

Detroit schools seek contract extension with Beyond Basics to improve reading skills

Detroit school officials are seeking to extend a contract next year with local tutoring nonprofit Beyond Basics to provide continued help for district students far behind in reading skills.

DPSCD students performed slightly below pre-pandemic measures on M-STEP, Michigan’s standardized test during the 2021-22 school year. (M-STEP results from the 2022-23 school year are expected to be released in September.) In English, 9% of third grade students scored at or above proficiency, compared with 11.9% in 2019.

But the district’s declines in reading proficiency also reflect broader state and national trends. The percentage of Michigan third graders a year or more behind in reading went up 20% in the 2021-22 school year, according to an annual report from Michigan State University’’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative on the number of students eligible for retention.

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Policy Briefs: RBG3

The Education Policy Innovation Collaborative publishes Policy Briefs on a rolling basis in conjunction with our partners.

Working Papers: RBG3

The Education Policy Innovation Collaborative publishes Working Papers on a rolling basis in conjunction with our partners.

What’s Happening Around RBG3

RBG3 Presentations

Michigan’s Early Literacy Task Force invites EPIC to present findings from their ISD Early Literacy Coaches Report

Findings from a recent report which uses results from surveys of ISD Early Literacy Coaches as well as Michigan teachers, principals, and district superintendents to examine how the literacy coaching component of the Law has been implemented to date and how educators perceived the ISD Early Literacy Coaches with whom they worked are presented to the Early Literacy Task Force (ELTF).

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EPIC works with state and district partners to create a targeted research agenda to learn which reform strategies are most effective, where, when and for whom.

Most images of students and teachers on site are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action

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