When other labs repeated Schooler's experiments, they got a similar spread of data, with a distinct downward trend.
Stephen's repeated school absences, brushes with the police and eagerness to follow what he described as "the wrong crowd" caught up with him, though.
Many cases involve a pile-up of calamities: one constituent tearily describes how immigration troubles have led to debt, repossession, repeated school moves and worse.
As many pupils attending private schools have repeated school years, they are older on average than the average 9th grader in a public school, whereas in the international sample, they are more likely to be in the 8th grade at the age of 15 instead of being in the 9th grade.
Capping the insanity, incoming NRA president Oliver North blamed Ritalin and a "culture of violence" for the repeated school massacres — not guns.
Grade repetition was assessed with the question "During the life course, do you have repeated school year(s) at primary school and middle school?" (never, at primary school, for every year at middle school); multiple responses were possible [ 14].
We included the covariates: age, gender, alcohol consumption in the previous month, lifetime use of cannabis, lifetime sexual abuse, repeated school years, maternal educational level and single-parent family.
We ran a series of multivariate logistic regression analyses to assess the association between suicide risk severity and family factors adjusted on educational level, repeated school years, SES status and substance use.
Specifically, we examined child gender, the number of years the adolescents repeated schooling by grade 7, maternal age, education, marital status, and household SES in association with lifetime alcohol use at these two developmental stages.
In his speech, Hollande outlined proposals for his five-year term, which also include increasing teacher presence in disadvantaged areas, targeting absenteeism and reducing the number of students who fail and are thus forced to repeat school years.
