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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Literacy is really important. According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade. Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. Mattison, R.,

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Bullying

SRI Education

Including parents in bullying intervention and prevention efforts contributes to the success of these efforts (Carney et al., Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. Journal of Educational Research, 111 (3), 284–294. 2015; de Vries et al.,