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Gottfried, Michael A. – American Journal of Education, 2013
Numerous studies have examined how grade retention can impede the academic success of those retained students. One uncharted line of research is the spillover effect that retained students may exert on their classmates. The purpose of this study is to evaluate this relationship for students in urban elementary school classrooms. To do so, this…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Cohort Analysis, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
Gottfried, Michael A. – American Journal of Education, 2011
There is evidence suggesting that missing school negatively relates to academic achievement. However, it is a difficult task to derive unbiased empirical estimates of absences in their influence on performance. One particular challenge arises from the unobserved heterogeneity in the family environment, which may relate to both absence behavior and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Siblings, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement