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ERIC Number: EJ671092
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Flunking Kindergarten after Head Start: An Inquiry into the Contribution of Contextual and Individual Variables.
Mantzicoupoulos, Panayota
Journal of Educational Psychology, v95 n2 p268-78 Jun 2003
Examines the extent that nonpromotion to 1st grade can be predicted from information about school and family contexts. Parental school involvement, parental estimates of children's school adjustment, and parental satisfaction with school programs were predictive of risk for nonpromotion. Head Start children were less likely to be retained in public schools that provided educational as well as family services. (Contains 52 references and 5 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Grade Repetition, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Project Head Start