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Student Retention

Catalyst Chicago issue cover, published May 2004

Decades of research on student retention have found that repeating a grade generally does not improve students’ academic performance and, in the long run, increases their chances of dropping out. Yet the popularity of such policies is growing. The reasons range from a perceived lack of alternatives, to the motivation that the threat of retention generates in at least some students and parents.

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Notebook

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What we know about efforts to end ‘social promotion’

By Elizabeth Duffrin | August 18, 2005
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Popular despite the research

By Elizabeth Duffrin | August 18, 2005
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Attempt at critical mass falls short but pays dividends

By Debra Williams | August 16, 2005
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Older 8th-graders take new route

By Elizabeth Duffrin | August 16, 2005
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Three who were kept behind

By Elizabeth Duffrin | August 16, 2005
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N.C. study finds certification pays off for students

By Debra Williams | August 10, 2005
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How academic achievement academies work

By Catalyst Chicago | August 10, 2005
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