Friday's Internet Edition, May 09, 2008.
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Dr. Jacob Vigdor, an associate professor of public policy studies and economics, is also a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been at Duke for the past nine years and attended the meeting at the request of Superintendent Dr. Robert Landry.
Vigdor and three other researchers studied the behaviors and test scores of groups of sixth graders, those who spent sixth grade in elementary school and those whose sixth grade year was spent in middle school. They also looked at the students’ performances in other grades.
Their research, using 99 of the state’s 117 school systems in the 2000-01 school year, shows that sixth graders do much better when ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.