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Direct linkHood, Lucy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
To platoon or not to platoon? That's the question facing Irving Hamer, Deputy Superintendent of Academic Operations, Technology and lnnovation for the Memphis City Schools. This year for the first time, the state's achievement test, Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), will include algebraic concepts on the 5th-grade test. Of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Algebra
Ames, Louise Bates – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Citing selected studies and experiences at the Gesell Institute of Human Development, the author argues that grade repetition benefits children whose behavior age is less than their chronological age. She emphasizes parent cooperation for dealing with the child's temporary emotional upset over being retained. Condensed from "Early Years," December…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emotional Problems, Grade Repetition, Parent Teacher Cooperation
