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Safer, Daniel J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1986
This review summarizes pertinent literature on the differential impact of primary versus secondary public education on students. Data show that junior high/middle school students with prominent elementary school maladjustments have a 5-13-fold greater rate of grade failure, suspension, and undue absenteeism than do students without such…
Descriptors: Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Junior High Schools