Indiana’s high stakes reading test has many parents worried their child won’t be promoted to fourth grade. But one family says retention is working for their son — even though he passed the IREAD-3.
Retention for students who don’t pass third grade reading exams works best when used in concert with other intervention strategies, according to a policy brief released Thursday by the Center on Children and Families at The Brookings Institution: Policies encouraging the retention of students who have not acquired basic reading skills by third grade are no substitute [...]
Whether you think the Indiana students that are held back for poor scores on this year’s IREAD-3 exams will be better- or worse-off depends on which studies’ results you believe.
“I started crying and telling myself I was stupid because I didn’t pass that test,” Ethan Brown, 9, remembers.
Sen. Luke Kenley says state education officials are out of bounds in using a bill he sponsored in 2010 as the legal basis for the IREAD-3.
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