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Download full textRoderick, Melissa; Nagaoka, Jenny; Bacon, Jen; Easton, John Q. – 2000
This report examines the performance of students facing the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy to end social promotion in 1999. As the third group to face CPS promotional test cutoffs, they received more programmatic support than previous students. An afterschool program was expanded considerably, and many more at-risk students were required to…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Standards, After School Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Roderick, Melissa; Bryk, Anthony S.; Jacob, Brian A.; Easton, John Q.; Allensworth, Elaine – 1999
In 1996, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began an initiative aimed at ending social promotion and raising achievement. The centerpiece of the initiative is a set of test-score cutoffs for third, sixth, and eighth graders, who must achieve a minimum score on standardized reading and mathematics tests to be promoted to the next grade. Students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cutting Scores, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
