Can unlike students learn together? : grade retention, tracking, and grouping

• Other Authors: Walberg, Herbert J., 1937- (Editor), Reynolds, Arthur J. (Editor), Wang, Margaret C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2004.
• Series: Research in educational productivity.
• Subjects: Grade repetition > United States.; Ability grouping in education > United States.; Education > General.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; Education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918117059
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-480-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : illustrations

For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a yea...

Table of Contents:

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