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Promoting the end of social promotion

Posted by Flatnose on 09-21-2006 at 2:04 PM

By Jay Greene & Marcus Winters

... in a new study we conducted for the Manhattan Institute that avoids the pitfalls of earlier research, we find that holding low-performing students back helps them academically. We examined a policy in Florida that required third-grade student to perform at a certain level on the state’s reading test to receive an automatic promotion to fourth grade. ..

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