On the Success of Failure - Couverture rigide

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

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521415047 ISBN 13 : 9780521415040

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book examines grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upwards of half the students may repeat a grade.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upwards of half the students may repeat a grade. On the Success of Failure addresses the question of 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 school children from first grade through middle school. Focusing on the experience of first, second and third grade repeaters, the volume finds largely positive effects for retention. Test scores and marks, which are low to begin with and get worse over time, improve when retainees get back into the regular promotion sequence, but in most instances repeaters remain above where they had been before being held back. Retention is not the answer to children's problems, but neither is it the source of problems, as much commentary on the practice would have us believe. On the Success of Failure gives evidence that a return to social promotion would be the real disservice to these youngsters and their families.

Revue de presse

Praise for the first edition: 'This is the first book I have seen that sheds light on the failed social promotion reform. This well researched book intersects with reality and will be enthusiastically embraced by parents, teachers, and principals.' Jim Grant, Executive Director, Society for Developmental Education

'Should not only provoke new research but open the minds of policy analysts and educators to the value of clear, rigorous standards. It should also help shatter the assumptions that city kids can't be expected to learn and that little can be expected of them.' Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521415047
• ISBN 13: 9780521415040
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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