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Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior / Philip J. Cook, Robert MacCoun, Clara Muschkin, Jacob Vigdor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Philip J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12471.
- NBER working paper series no. w12471
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the students and their schools. Furthermore, the higher infraction rates recorded by sixth graders who are placed in middle school persist at least through ninth grade. A plausible explanation is that sixth graders are at an especially impressionable age; in middle school, the exposure to older peers and the relative freedom from supervision have deleterious consequences.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2006.
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