In this article, we examine student performance on mandated tests in grades 3, 4, and 5 in one state. We focus on this interval, which we term "the fourth grade window," based on our hypothesis that students in grade four are particularly vulnerable to decrements in achievement. The national focus on the third grade as the critical benchmark in student performance has distracted researchers and policy makers from recognition that the fourth grade transition is essential to our understanding of how to promote complex thinking and reasoning that are built upon a foundation of basic skills that may be necessary, but are not sufficient, for the more nuanced learning expected in subsequent grades. We hypothesized that the basic skills that defin...
This study is aimed to unpack the ‘black box’ that connects the grade-3 test-based retention policy ...
Literacy is a growing national concern, resulting in federal legislation (e.g., No Child Left Behind...
Nine states and three of the nation’s biggest cities have adopted mandates intended to end “social p...
Change and continuity in student achievement from grades 3 to 5 :a policy dilemma / Mary McCaslin, H...
In this article we examine student performance on mandated tests in grades 3, 4, and 5 in one state....
The report, "Primary Progress, Secondary Challenge: A State-by-State Look at Student Achievement Pat...
Many American states require that students lacking basic reading proficiency after third grade be re...
As of 2021, eighteen states plus the District of Columbia have implemented legislation regarding ma...
textPublic education in the United States is currently enveloped in an era of intense accountability...
Literacy is a growing national concern that has resulted in federal legislation (e.g., the No Child ...
Social factors surrounding critical transition periods, school and class size, and grade configurati...
This April 2011 At a Glance report from the Education Oversight Committee looks at individual studen...
Presents findings from a longitudinal study of high school graduation rates analyzed by race/ethnici...
The EOC wanted to look at individual student performance on the Palmetto Achievement of State Standa...
Abstract: This paper examines whether minimum competency school accountability systems, such as tho...
This study is aimed to unpack the ‘black box’ that connects the grade-3 test-based retention policy ...
Literacy is a growing national concern, resulting in federal legislation (e.g., No Child Left Behind...
Nine states and three of the nation’s biggest cities have adopted mandates intended to end “social p...
Change and continuity in student achievement from grades 3 to 5 :a policy dilemma / Mary McCaslin, H...
In this article we examine student performance on mandated tests in grades 3, 4, and 5 in one state....
The report, "Primary Progress, Secondary Challenge: A State-by-State Look at Student Achievement Pat...
Many American states require that students lacking basic reading proficiency after third grade be re...
As of 2021, eighteen states plus the District of Columbia have implemented legislation regarding ma...
textPublic education in the United States is currently enveloped in an era of intense accountability...
Literacy is a growing national concern that has resulted in federal legislation (e.g., the No Child ...
Social factors surrounding critical transition periods, school and class size, and grade configurati...
This April 2011 At a Glance report from the Education Oversight Committee looks at individual studen...
Presents findings from a longitudinal study of high school graduation rates analyzed by race/ethnici...
The EOC wanted to look at individual student performance on the Palmetto Achievement of State Standa...
Abstract: This paper examines whether minimum competency school accountability systems, such as tho...
This study is aimed to unpack the ‘black box’ that connects the grade-3 test-based retention policy ...
Literacy is a growing national concern, resulting in federal legislation (e.g., No Child Left Behind...
Nine states and three of the nation’s biggest cities have adopted mandates intended to end “social p...