On the success of failure
Subtitle: a reassessment of the effects of retention in the primary grades
By: Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Susan L. Dauber.
Contributors: Entwisle, Doris R.; Dauber, Susan L.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Grade repetition -- United States.; Education, Primary -- United States.
Description: "On the Success of Failure addresses whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up. It describes the school context of retention and evaluates its consequences by tracking the experiences of a large, representative sample of Baltimore schoolchildren from first grade through high school. In addition to evaluating the consequences of retention, the book describes the cohort's dispersion along many different educational pathways from first grade through middle school, the articulation of retention with other forms of educational tracking (like reading group placements in the early primary grades and course-level assignments in middle school), and repeaters' academic and school adjustment problems before they were held back."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-304) and indexes.