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Winters, Marcus A. – Center for State and Local Leadership, 2012
State and municipal policymakers are increasingly addressing the practice of social promotion in schools--moving children along to the next grade whether or not they have mastered the curriculum--by mandating test-based grade promotion. This paper draws conclusions about the effects of a policy limiting social promotion. To do so, it employs a…
Descriptors: Social Promotion, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
Social promotion has long been the normal practice in American schools. Critics of this practice, whereby students are promoted to the next grade regardless of academic preparation, have suggested that students would benefit academically if they were made to repeat a grade. Supporters of social promotion claim that retaining students (i.e, holding…
Descriptors: Social Promotion, Grade Repetition, Standardized Tests, Educational Policy
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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Education Next, 2006
Of the many entrenched school customs that have been reconsidered and reformed over the past decade, social promotion has been among the most resistant to change. Holding children back in the same grade has long been frowned upon, and a large body of research seems to support that point of view. Despite the old habits and the old research,…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Promotion, Grade Repetition, State Standards
Ladner, Matthew – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2009
Jeb Bush campaigned for Governor on a clear and bracing set of education reforms in 1998. Having won office, he immediately pursued a dual track strategy of education reform: standards and accountability for public schools, choice options for dissatisfied parents. Florida lawmakers followed these reforms with additional measures, including…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education