Students Repeating a Grade Due to Bad Grades

Students Repeating a Grade Due to Bad Grades

Hasan Khudhair

Penn State University

Context 1

For this research paper, I want to investigate student grade retention and school drop outs that are caused by grade retention. Grade retention, which is repeating a grade is happening all across the United States from elementary through high school. My question which is, what are the impacts on students repeating a grade, it is worth investigating because the percentage of students that are repeating a grade is increasing and dropout rates are increasing as well. Also, I am trying to figure out what is causing this issue and how to prevent it. My plan for finding resources is to gather annotated articles together, which could help me paraphrase and could back me up with factual information.

Context 2

In the United States, Many students fail classes due to poor grades and incomplete assignments. Many students end up repeating a grade which leaves them behind their peers. In this research, students in elementary school, middle school, and high school are included in my research. I am especially interested in researching the elementary school students and high school students because I would like to learn more about the statics and which level of education has more of grade retention. For this research paper, I am interested in researching about grade retention in the United States in all the states but specifically, in poor States and low income families as well as wealthy States with wealthy families to compare both sides. Also, I am interested in researching schools that are in bad areas that are very poor with bad students. Around 1860 in the United States, it became common for elementary schools to force elementary students to repeat a grade. Grade retention later then became to spread out to all schools and most schools forced students to repeat a grade. The goal of grade retention was to improve the student's academic skills in school (Owings & Magliaro, 1998, p. 86). Today, students are repeating grades due to their academic skills and poor grades. Because of this issue, students are dropping out of school and many face mental problems in their future. When students drop out, the rate of students in school drops down also, which makes this issue important because we as a country need to make education better for the students by creating programs that could help the students and solve this issue by not attempting