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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
Opperman, Prudence; Gampert, Richard D. – 1989
The cohort method was used to compute graduation and dropout rates for 82,935 New York City public high school students who entered grade 9 in 1984 and were expected to graduate in June 1988. Separate studies were conducted for the following: (1) a 1-year follow-up of the Class of 1987; (2) a 2-year follow-up of the Class of 1986; (3) a…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
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
