Meta-analysis of grade retention research: Implications for practice in the 21st century

School Psychology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 420-437

  Jimerson, Shane R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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