Flunking Grades
Published in March 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85000-339-7 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-339-7 (9781850003397)
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Persons
Content
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.