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Download full textPike, Daniel W.; Weisbender, Leo – 1988
This document comprises a report on retention patterns in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) showing the number and percentage of students retained in grade at the conclusion of the 1986-87 school year. Retention and enrollment data were collected from annual reports filed by all schools. Differences in sex, ethnicity, and grade level…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Grade Repetition
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The study described in this report examined the characteristics of eighth-grade students who were at risk of school failure. The study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, which is a large-scale, national longitudinal study begun in the spring of 1988 when 25,000 eighth graders attending public and private schools…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, American Indians, Black Students, Demography
Delidow, Stanley V. – 1989
This study was begun in the Fall of 1985 to determine the long-term effects of retention in one of the six COOR Intermediate School District Areas (Roscommon, Michigan). The major focus is on academic achievement as measured by the California Achievement (CA) Test, which has been given to every kindergarten through eighth grade student in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
