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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years.

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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Bullying

SRI Education

2012; Turunen et al., Including parents in bullying intervention and prevention efforts contributes to the success of these efforts (Carney et al., Journal of Educational Research, 111 (3), 284–294. Morgan et al., 2014; Morgan et al., 2017, 2021). Include parents in bullying intervention and prevention efforts.