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

It was so rocky his parents asked for him to repeat sixth grade — a decision they credit with getting him on a better track. “At first I didn’t really want to do it,” said Braylon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

But for anyone considering repeating in 2025 ... That is because after five years of inflated grades that started in 2020, when Covid forced the cancellation of written exams, a phased process ...

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 ...

Now the nine-year-old is one of eight students repeating third grade at the public charter school she attends in Memphis. “She’s dealing with it, but she don’t like that she failed third ...