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Study finds few students were held back under a Michigan childhood literacy law
DATE: July 4, 2024
Michigan’s Read by Grade Three law included that kids who scored lower than state standards on the M-Step would repeat their third grade year. Research from the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative found that a large number of the students who qualified to get held back got exceptions and moved onto fourth grade.
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