Sentences with phrase «3rd grade retention»

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Not surprisingly, in September, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the retention program would in the future include 5th grade as well as 3rd grade.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

Because the state has not yet identified students for retention, the test scores of students the first time they are in the 3rd grade are not affected by any change in the student cohort resulting from the retention policy.

Our fundamental findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data for these two years indicate that the performance of students identified for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and students who were actually retained made the larger relative gains.

The best way to answer the question is to look at changes in student test - score performance among those in 3rd grade for the first time, as their test scores are unaffected by the retention policy.

If the gains observed for 4th graders were a function of differences in the type of students entering that grade due to the retention policy, then the performance of those entering 3rd grade should look essentially the same after 2002 as it did before the retention policy was put into place.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

Proponents of test - based promotion argue that the threat of retention provides a powerful incentive for educators to help students become strong readers by 3rd grade, and that students who fall short could stand to benefit from an additional year of schooling.

One of the reasons for lower retention rates was improved 3rd - grade performance on the state's examination.

That, Klein aides argue, will show that major reforms in lower grades, like the citywide curriculum and the 3rd - and 5th - grade retention policies, will have combined with reforms to middle schools and high schools to produce their desired effects.

In the first several years of the policy, the CPS retained 20 percent of eligible 3rd graders and approximately 10 percent of 6th - and 8th - grade students — compared with an almost negligible retention rate before the ending of social promotion.

The Arizona State Board of Education has approved use of the Galileo K - 12 Instructional Improvement and Effectiveness System (IIES) in assessing 3rd grade student reading skills following a new exemption to retention in Move on When Reading (MOWR) legislation... Continue reading

This study examines the effects of grade retention on student misbehavior in Florida, which requires students with reading skills below grade level to be retained in the 3rd grade.