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

by Karl L. Alexander, Susan L. Dauber, Doris R. Entwisle

Book Overview

This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the students may repeat a grade. On the Success of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002C73YJ8
• ISBN13: 9780521793971
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.1"