Students who have to repeat a grade can cause discipline problems among their classmates, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at nearly 80,000 seventh graders in 334 North Carolina middle ...

DURHAM, N.C. — A new study by researchers at Duke University documented a ripple effect of behavioral problems in schools where students repeated a grade. The research, published online Friday at ...

WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and ...

Keith Kincaid couldn't help but chuckle Monday when he thought about his childhood and how teachers would scold kids for misbehaving. “It was all about ‘don't do this' and ‘don't do that,'” the ...

Schools with a high number of students who repeat a grade are more likely to have discipline problems in the classrooms, a Duke University study has found. A research team led by Dr Clara Muschkin ...