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Report: State third-grade reading scores show achievement gap continues to widen
DATE: September 1, 2022
A report out Thursday from Michigan State University education researchers shows that 5.8% of third-graders received a reading score on M-STEP tests low enough to make them eligible to be held back under the state’s third-grade reading law. About 96% of students took the M-STEP in the spring. The Michigan Department of Education published the scores on Thursday. Data on how many students were held back from the end of last year to this school year is not available yet, but usually a much smaller fraction of students eligible for retention are actually held back.
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