Does retaining students help them learn?

6/25/2016

See Elaine's latest column in The Group Psychologist. Elaine reviews evidence that retaining students in their grade does not help them learn, and neither does social promotion. However, teaching children to read does help them to succeed.

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Elaine Clanton Harpine, Ph.D.

Elaine is a program designer with many years of experience helping at-risk children learn to read. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Counseling) from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

if you teach a child to read, you can change the world.

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