Grade Retention and School Dropout: Investigating the Association.

Roderick, Melissa

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ERIC Number: EJ592455

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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Grade Retention and School Dropout: Investigating the Association.

Roderick, Melissa

American Educational Research Journal, v31 n4 p729-59 Win 1994

Uses event-history analysis to explore whether and how grade retention influenced graduation outcomes for a cohort of 707 youths from an urban school system. Repeating a grade from kindergarten to grade 6 was associated with an increase in the odds of dropping out. Explores the impact of being over age for grade. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Age Differences, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Urban Schools, Urban Youth

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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