The Grade Retention [microform] : Social Promotion Debate / John Lindelow
- Bib ID:
- 5457162
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lindelow, John
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED260514
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 6 p.
- Summary:
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This publication focuses on the retention/promotion debate regarding failing and low-achieving students. An introductory essay describes the inherent limitation in the research done on this issue--the impossibility of obtaining an appropriate control group--and suggests that the retention/promotion quandary can best be resolved by accommodating the present educational system to the special needs of low-achieving students. Thereafter, five recent studies on this issue are summarized and reviewed. The first, by Doug Chafe, is a review of the literature on criteria for retention or promotion. The second, by Jane K. Elligett and Thomas S. Tocco, describes the stringent promotion/retention policy in Pinellas County, Florida, and analyzes its results. The third, by Nancy B. Schuyler, is a technical report from the Austin (Texas) Independent School District on its new stringent promotion/retention policy at the elementary level. Fourth is a California study, by Jonathan Sandoval and G. Penee Hughes, that analyzed a wide variety of indicators to determine predictors of success for retained first-grade students. The final study, by Marilyn Pheasant, describes a first-grade readiness program at the Aumsville (Oregon) School District. ERIC document numbers are noted. (TE)
- Notes:
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- Availability: Publication Sales, National Association of Elementary School Principals, 1615 Duke Street, Arlington, VA 22314 ($2.00, prepaid; quantity discounts).
- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: 400-83-0013.
- Practitioners.
- Research Roundup, v2 n1 Nov 1985.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Academic Failure
- Age Grade Placement
- Elementary Secondary Education
- Grade Repetition
- Grades (Scholastic)
- Learning Problems
- Low Achievement
- Preschool Education
- Research Needs
- Social Promotion
- Student Improvement
- Student Placement
- Student Promotion
- Underachievement
- Aumsville School District OR Austin Independent School District TX Pinellas County School System FL
- Other authors/contributors:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2042 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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