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 Failure addresses whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up. It describes the school context of retention and evaluates its consequences by tracking the experiences of a large, representative sample of Baltimore...

• 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"