Fewer Michigan third graders could be held back for reading

Roughly 5.6 percent of Michigan third graders could be required to repeat third grade due to low reading scores, according to a new report from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, or EPIC. This is a slight improvement from the 5.8 percent of third graders who could have been held back in 2022, but remains higher than the pre-pandemic rate of just 4...

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