First-Year Chicago Teacher Creates Catchy Rap Song to Welcome 4th-Grade Class. Dwayne Reed may have found the secret to getting kids excited for school. By ABC News. August 24, 2016, 9:08 AM.

Repeating 3rd grade without modifying those factors or the instruction students receive won’t remedy the problem, Horowitz-Kraus said. “Aside from saying, ‘we have a reading problem,’ we ...

Of course, retention wasn’t a totally empty threat in Michigan—more than 500 students were held back in 3rd grade in the 2021-22 school year, for example. The policy had unequal effects.