Grade repetition: there are better ways to move kids forward than by holding them back

By Danielle Romanes and Jordana Hunter. If you take a typical Australian classroom and line up the students by their current achievement levels, you will find a five- to six-year spread between the most and least advanced 10% of students. When students are being left behind the solution presented is often to hold them back a grade, making them repeat a year level. More...