Holding Back Students Damages Their Educational Progress: An Advocacy Report

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Research shows that the use of a single test to determine whether a child is held back a grade impedes the educational progress of children and leads to lower achievement and higher dropout rates. Such blanket retention policies are damaging to students, particularly students of color, and should be blocked.

By Jill Chaifetz and Rachel Kravitz From January - February 2005