10,000 NYC Students Expected to Repeat 3rd Grade

Disturbing news out of the Big Apple. It seems that a large number of third graders may be held back because they can’t pass the city’s standardized reading and math exams. According to the article, “city spent $8 million preparing for the exams, 11,700 of the 80,000 third-graders in New York City public schools failed one or both of the tests.” Read More.