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Download full textBurrow, Denise – Kairaranga, 2005
Research identifies that a percentage of students are less successful than others in transitioning from Year 8 to Year 9. A positive support programme was developed to target some of these students and help them ease from the nurturing climate within the primary system into the multi-faceted secondary environment. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Student Promotion
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1985
In the summer of 1984, the Pennsylvania Department of Education conducted a survey of promotion policies and practices in Pennsylvania schools in response to a request for information from the State Board of Education. This document presents the major findings from the analysis of data from the 423 school districts that completed the survey. A…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Program Descriptions
Washington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2004
This report summarizes activities in the AISD state-funded Optional Extended Year program for the 2003-2004 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Extended School Year, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
