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On the Success of Failure
On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades
On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades

By Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, Susan L. Dauber

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"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...

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On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades
Achievement in the First 2 Years of School
Children Schools and Inequality
On the Success of Failure
On the Success of Failure
On the Success of Failure
On the Success of Failure
The summer slide
The summer slide

By Matthew Boulay, Karl L. Alexander, Sarah Pitcock

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Provides an up-to-date account of what research has to say about summer learning loss, the conditions in low-income children's homes and communities that impede learning over the summer months, and...

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