Sentences with phrase «on ending social promotion»

«During Vallas» time, there was a strong push on ending social promotion, using standardized tests.

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As policy makers look for ways to fix the nation's failing schools, many eyes are focused on Chicago's four - year - old effort to end social promotion.

In commenting on my recent blog post on New York City's ending of social promotion, Fred Smith points out that those third - graders held back in 2004 would not have shown up in 8th grade.

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.

Since 1999 the CCSR has published several studies of Chicago's attempt to end social promotion that help to provide an extensive, empirical, and longitudinal look at the impact of the high - stakes testing policies on the Chicago school system.

Reynolds lays much of the blame on the push to end «social promotion» — the practice of advancing children to the next grade despite failing grades — that marked the Chicago Public Schools in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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.»

In 2003, Mr. Bloomberg ended the practice of «social promotion» in certain grades, requiring students performing at the lowest levels on the tests be held back unless they attended summer school and showed progress on a retest.

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.

A major influence on high school reform outcomes to date has been the end of social promotion in elementary schools: students in the third, sixth and eighth grades who do not achieve a minimum score on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills are either retained or sent to academic preparatory centers.

Though I can't prove it, I believe that more students drop out at earlier ages (which the Consortium on Chicago School Research's Ending Social Promotion study found to be true of students flunked under CPS's terrible elementary promotion policy).

If you wanted to talk about social presence, integration or promotions, there were a lot of crickets on my end.

But I kept up the promotion to the very end, as anybody who follows me on social media can attest, probably with an eye - roll at my multitudes of posts.

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