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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study, “Helping or Hurting: The Effects of Retention in the Third Grade on Student Outcomes,” examined this practice’s effects, looking at how the state of Indiana’s test-based retention policy – based on third-grade reading tests – impacted student success, disciplinary outcomes, and attendance up to five years down the line.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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These individuals incorporate the skills of several other roles, by “merging the skills of statistics, mathematics, programming, communication, and business knowledge” (8). What happens when you disaggregate your student success data? Organizing for evidence-based decision making and improvement. Change, 44 (4), 45-51.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Exploring group counseling interventions for Black boys in middle school: Using the achieving success everyday (ASE) group model for racial and mathematical identity development. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills. Hines and E.C. Frazier, R.-M.

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