Grade retention: A history of failure

Educational Leadership

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 86-88

  Owings, William A ^a   Magliaro, Susan ^b  

^a Accomack County Public Schools   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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