By Jennifer Sloan McCombs
The hot York urban division of schooling requested Rand to behavior an self sufficient longitudinal evaluate of its 5thgrade promoting coverage. The findings of that learn, carried out among March 2006 and August 2009, offer a entire view of the policy1s implementation and its impression on scholar results, quite for college students susceptible to retention and those that have been retained in grade.
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