Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools

By Jonah E. Rockoff, Ben Lockwood. 2010

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/111727d2a1b7931c25a1ca0576540440d1f3c78b

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1. Linda Darling-Hammond
2. Brigid Barron
3. Channa M. Cook-Harvey
4. D. Osher
5. Lisa Flook
6. J. Teodorović
7. K. Ann Renninger
8. J. A. Linney

Citations in the corpus

• The effect of school closings on student achievement (2014, unknown): “See Rockoff and Lockwood (2010) for an examination of student mobility from elementary to middle school.”
• Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development (2019, background): “…have a negative effect on student achievement; in particular, a transition to middle school at fifth or sixth grade sharply increases the odds of dropping out, while decreasing achievement in reading and math (e.g., Rockoff & Lockwood, 2010; Schwerdt & West, 2013; Simmons & Blyth, 1987).”