Sentences with phrase «program ending social promotion»

At first glance our findings seem inconsistent with evaluations of Chicago's program ending social promotion, to our knowledge the only similarly designed retention policy to be evaluated using comparable methods.

Not exact matches

Under this category would come the promotion of particular programs, of particular reforms, and of particular moralities, the advocacy of this or that social formula or this or that political solution as ends in themselves.

Did it mean that ending social promotion was working or that the strict retention policies that were the program's hallmark in 1996 had been abandoned?

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

In the case of Florida's program to end social promotion, for example, we can compare students who were subject to the threat of retention with students who would have been had they been born a year later.

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.

In 2005, Alexander Russo wrote about how Chicago preserved its controversial program to end social promotion in «Retaining Retention.»

Despite mixed reviews from many educators — and some researchers — Chicago's policy to end social promotion has turned out to be a popular program.

Indeed, some have suggested that ending social promotion in Chicago simply transferred responsibility for poor student performance to the students, parents, and after school and summer programs, in effect removing the burden from teachers (see Figure 1).

An end to the «School - to - Prison Pipeline» and the promotion of alternatives such as restorative justice programs, wrap - around services including an adequate guidance and social work staff; an end to racial profiling and Stop and Frisk; and a return to community schools as centers that provide medical care, skills training, and tutoring, with social workers and counselors for students» families and the community.