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September 4, 2018

Via: Education Dive

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Sixteen states plus D.C. require retention for students not reading at proficiency by the end of 3rd grade; 14 of those allow for conditional promotion. Research shows that students who have been retained, as early as kindergarten or as late as middle school, are less likely to graduate high school. And aside from that, studies show that when students are held back, the performance of their classmates starts to suffer.

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