Can unlike students learn together?
Subtitle: grade retention, tracking, and grouping
By: edited by Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, Margaret C. Wang.
Contributors: Walberg, Herbert J., 1937-; Reynolds, Arthur J.; Wang, Margaret C.; Temple University. Laboratory for Student Success.
Series: Research in educational productivity
Publisher: Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing; IAP: Information Age Publishing Inc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Grade repetition -- United States.; Ability grouping in education -- United States.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with LSS."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Herbert J. Walberg; title: Dropout in relation to grade retention : an accounting of the beginning school study / Karl L. Alexander ... [et al.]; title: Grade retention and school dropout : another look at the evidence / Judy A. Temple, Arthur J. Reynolds, and Suh-Ruu Ou; title: Is grade retention educational malpractice? : empirical evidence from meta-analyses examining the efficacy of grade retention / Shane R. Jimerson; title: Race-ethnicity, social background, and grade retention / Robert M. Hauser, Devah I. Pager, and Solon J. Simmons; title: Race effects on ability group outcomes / Maureen T. Hallinan; title: Classroom organization and instructional quality / Adam Gamoran; title: Grouping, tracking, and de-tracking : conclusions from experimental, correlational, and ethnographic research / James A. Kulik; title: Understanding research on the consequences of retention / Lorrie A. Shepard; title: Recommendations and a personal view / Herbert J. Walberg.