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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The 1984-85 age-grade distribution for the New York City Public Schools shows that one-third of the city's approximately 850,000 general education and resource room students were above the standard age for their grade. The proportion of overage students increased in the upper grades; in grades nine, ten, and eleven, over half were above standard…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Age Grade Placement, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education

Kerckhoff, Alan C. – American Sociological Review, 1986
Examines the effects of school types and ability grouping within school types on individual student performance. Results demonstrate that students in high ability groups gain more and students in low ability groups gain less over a five-year period than they would be expected had they not been separated into ability groups. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Advanced Placement
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
The document is the third in a series of reports on progress in implementing P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Six chapters each address a particular question regarding implementation. Chapter 1 investigates the numbers and types of handicapped children being provided special education and related services, and examines…
Descriptors: Administration, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston. – 1983
This is the first of a series of planned studies undertaken (by court order) by the Massachusetts State Board of Education in order to monitor the progress toward desegregation in the Boston Public Schools. This volume includes the reports produced by department staff in areas monitored, together with selected statistical and other information…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College School Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Conflict Resolution