Flunking grades : research and policies on retention
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Flunking grades : research and policies on retention
（Education policy perspectives, Policy studies and evaluation series）
Falmer Press, 1989
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This book challenges the efficacy of the policy of American schools of holding children back in grade for a year, and presents evidence that the policy is damaging to those retained, especially to lower classes and minority groups, often causing them to drop out of school altogether.
Table of Contents
- A meta-analysis of research on grade retention, C.T.Holmes
- a review of research on kindergarten retention, L.A.Shepard
- academic and emotional effects of kindergarten in one school district, L.A.Shepard and M.L.Smith
- attitudes of parents, students and educators toward repeating a grade, D.Byrnes
- teachers' beliefs about retention, M.L.Smith
- ending school promotion in Waterford - appearance and reality, M.C.Ellwein and G.V.Glass
- repeating and dropping out of school, J.Grissom and L.A.Shepard
- alternatives to student retention - new images of the learner, the teacher and classroom learning, P.L.Peterson
- policy implications of retention research, E.House.
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