Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship Between Grade Retention and School Dropout

By Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Moller, J. Blau, Stephanie Potochnick. 2007

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Falling Behind? Children’s Early Grade Retention after Paternal Incarceration (2014, background): “Although grade retention is viewed as a means to improve school performance by giving children additional time to meet grade-level academic or behavioral expectations, existing research reaches decidedly conflicting conclusions about whether grade retention is associated with deleterious (e.g., Alex”
High School Dropout and the Role of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School (2008, result): “Since an older student’s scores on standardized tests and grades do not completely account for the effect of age on dropping out, we suspect that social compatibility is also relevant for these adolescents, a possibility that was supported by recent research (cf. Stearns et al. 2007).”
Student Engagement, Peer Social Capital, and School Dropout Among Mexican American and Non-Latino White Students (2008, background): “These findings resemble the obverse of the results of another study of dropout; Stearns et al. (2007) found that neither engagement behaviors nor various forms of parental social capital explain away links between retention and dropping out among Latino and white adolescents in the NELS data set.”