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Is retention a successful strategy for remediating struggling students?

April 26, 2017remediating retention strategy struggling students successful

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Is retention a successful strategy for remediating struggling students?

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No. Retention has a quarter-century history of failing to help struggling students. The very same policy of mass retentions occurred in New York City in the 1980s . It was called the Gates Program and it was a failure leading to more dropouts.