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Peer reviewedRoderick, Melissa; Camburn, Eric – American Educational Research Journal, 1999
Examined patterns in the relative risk of course failure and recovery from failure over the first four semesters of high school for students in the Chicago, Illinois, school system, showing how failure rates vary as a function of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and prior performance. Results for 27,612 students show that few recover from failure,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Age Differences, Ethnicity
