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Direct linkJamie L. Buckmaster; Angela Urick; Timothy G. Ford – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
Grade retention, the practice of holding a student back in the same grade, has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. English learners, a growing population in US schools, are consistently identified for grade retention more often than their English-only counterparts. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of grade…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, English Language Learners, Data Analysis, Urban Schools
Peterson, Lisa S.; Hughes, Jan N. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students retained in first grade, relative to similarly low-achieving students who were promoted, differed in the number of remedial educational services received by students in the pre-retention year and in the repeat year. Study participants were 769 relatively low-achieving first-grade…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade Repetition, Student Promotion, Grade 2
