Sentences with phrase «which ended social promotion»
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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.
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An independent research consortium studying the Chicago decision to end social promotion, which was aimed at helping students not working at grade level, reports a mixed bag of news.
According to the just - released 2013 Education Next annual poll, which Michael Henderson and I discuss in an article in Education Next, two - thirds of the public support Common Core standards and three - fourths favor an end to social promotion in elementary school and support high school graduation exams.
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).