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EJ359345 EA521565
Title: What Doesn't Work: Explaining Policies of Retention in the Early Grades.Author(s): Smith, Mary L.; Shepard, Lorrie A.
Source: Phi Delta Kappan, v69 n2 p129-34 Oct 1987
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055); Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJJAN1988
Retention
practices are poorly documented yet the most comprehensive research
on retention (Holmes and Mathews) shows that children who repeat
a grade make less progress than similar children who are promoted.
Explores the contradiction existing between school reform policy
and actual retention practice. (MD)
Descriptors: Educational Change; Educational Research; Elementary
Education; Grade Equivalent Scores; *Grade Repetition; Low Achievement;
*Student Promotion; *Teacher Student Relationship; Testing
