This week, Education Week hosted a webinar to discuss the research base around 3rd grade retention policies—under what conditions they are most effective, and what cautions states and districts ...

In March, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, signed a bill that would remove the 3rd grade retention component from the state’s early literacy law.

"Indiana has made extraordinary progress from where we began just a few years ago, when nearly one in five Indiana third graders could not read, to today when literacy rates have increased," Dr. Katie ...