The Madison School District points to research showing the harm that comes from forcing students to repeat a grade.

English language teacher Jessica Alford leads a student to their classroom at George Mason Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., on Aug. 21. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) Perspective by ...

Under a new state law, students who don't improve their scores this summer will have to repeat third grade, unless they ...

Third grade is regarded as a turning point in reading, when students are expected to read more complex text across the school day. If they can’t read at grade level in upper elementary school and ...

Many parents, empowered by new pandemic-era laws, have asked for do-overs: Their kids are repeating a grade. The vast of majority of states that provided data requested by The Associated Press ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to ...

A student may repeat only once for credit a course in which credit has previously been earned. All grades are counted in the cumulative average, but the credit hours earned in the course will count ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An estimated 1,800 Alabama students will repeat third grade because of low reading scores under a new state promotion requirement, the education superintendent said Thursday.