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Can unlike students learn together? : grade retention, tracking, and grouping / edited by Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, Margaret C. Wang.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Research in educational productivityPublisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: viii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1593111142
  • 9781593111144
  • 1593111150
  • 9781593111151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.252 22
LOC classification:
  • LB3063 .C32 2004
Contents:
1. Introduction and overview / Herbert J. Walberg -- 2. Dropout in relation to grade retention : an accounting of the beginning school study / Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Susan L. Dauber and Nader Kabbani -- 3. Grade retention and school dropout : another look at the evidence / Judy A. Temple, Arthur J. Reynolds and Suh-Ruu Ou -- 4. Is grade retention educational malpractice? : empirical evidence from the meta-analyses examining the efficacy of grade retention / Shane R. Jimerson -- 5. Race-ethnicity, social background, and grade retention / Robert M. Hauser, Devah I. Pager and Solon J. Simmons -- 6. Race effects on ability group outcomes / Maureen T. Hallinan -- 7. Classroom organization and instructional quality / Adam Gamoran -- 8. Grouping, tracking, and de-tracking : conclusions from experimental, correctional, and ethnographic research / James A. Kulik -- 9. Understanding research on the consequences of retention / Lorrie A. Shepard -- 10. Recommendations and a personal view / Herbert J. Walberg.
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1. Introduction and overview / Herbert J. Walberg -- 2. Dropout in relation to grade retention : an accounting of the beginning school study / Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Susan L. Dauber and Nader Kabbani -- 3. Grade retention and school dropout : another look at the evidence / Judy A. Temple, Arthur J. Reynolds and Suh-Ruu Ou -- 4. Is grade retention educational malpractice? : empirical evidence from the meta-analyses examining the efficacy of grade retention / Shane R. Jimerson -- 5. Race-ethnicity, social background, and grade retention / Robert M. Hauser, Devah I. Pager and Solon J. Simmons -- 6. Race effects on ability group outcomes / Maureen T. Hallinan -- 7. Classroom organization and instructional quality / Adam Gamoran -- 8. Grouping, tracking, and de-tracking : conclusions from experimental, correctional, and ethnographic research / James A. Kulik -- 9. Understanding research on the consequences of retention / Lorrie A. Shepard -- 10. Recommendations and a personal view / Herbert J. Walberg.

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