Sentences with phrase «by ending social promotion»

In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»

Not exact matches

This session ended with a robust panel discuss (led by Kelly Toups of the Oldways Whole Grains Council, a resource specialist for the Plant - Forward Working Group) of how campus dining leaders developed jackfruit pop - up events with social media promotions and marketing to get students interested in vegetarian and blended (meat + jackfruit) menu options.

But by far the biggest reform introduced by Daley and Paul Vallas, chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001, was the education equivalent of just say no: ending the practice of social promotion.

But Chicago's program may be the nation's largest sustained effort by a major school district to end social promotion.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

The testing program by the Louisiana Department of Education takes aim at ending its long - standing practice of social promotion, which the state says is harmful to students and leads to higher dropout rates.

After a similar policy of ending social promotion in third grade was embraced by Joel Klein in New York City, Paul Peterson wrote about its impact on reading scores.

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.

Analysis of the Board of Education's Change of Policy Regarding the Retention of Students This report examines changes initiated by the Board of Education to end the policy of «social promotion»... View report

You may have read this powerful story by one of the first students to be affected by Vallas's «ending social promotion» fiasco; we've had it posted for a while under the Take Action menu on our home page.