On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades

ISBN-13: 9780521793971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 326 str.

Karl L. Alexander; Doris R. Entwisle; Susan L. Dauber

Opis

This study is about the practice of grade retention in elementary schools; a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems. The book describes the school context of retention and evaluates its consequences by tracking the experiences of a large, representative sample of Baltimore school children from first grade through high school. It addresses the complex question of whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up with their coursework.