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CHILDREN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE END SOCIAL PROMOTION? |
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his 1999 State of the Union Address, President Clinton called
upon American educators to end social promotion, declaring that
"No child should graduate from high school with a diploma he or
she can't read." Cities across the country, including Chicago,
L.A., and New York, have instituted programs to end social promotion.
But critics wonder whether these cities have thought this solution
through. Might social promotion merely be a symptom of other,
larger troubles in our school systems?
On
this edition of The Merrow Report, John Merrow talks with William
Casey, Chief Executive of Program Development and Dissemination
for the Board of Education of the City of New York and Sue
Davenport, Acting Executive Director of Designs for Change,
about ending social promotion. Why are we failing our children?
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recorded
9/28/99 |
ARTICLES
"Public
Agenda: Reality Check 2001", Education Week, 2/21/01.
"School
System Leaders Propose Ineffective Strategies that Are Contradicted
by Test Results and Research", Designs for Change,
2/1/01.
"Taking
Responsibility for Ending Social Promotion: A Guide for Educators
and State and Local Leaders", US Department of Education,
7/1/99.
"1999
Summer School: Amid Successes, Concerns Persist," Kerry
A. White and Robert C. Johnston, Education Week, 9/22/99.
"Fair
and Open Testing," USA Today, 9/7/99.
"Race
and Policy," Ernest R. House, University of Colorado, Education
Policy Analysis Archives,4/26/99.
"What
If We Ended Social Promotion?" Robert M. Hauser, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Education Week, 4/7/99.
"Student
retention: Trying to succeed where others failed," Grant
Pick, Catalyst, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp 1, 4-8, April, 1998.
"The Predictable
Failure of Chicago's Student Retention Program," Ernest
R. House, School of Education University of Colorado -Boulder (This
article is in pdf. format. Download
free Acrobat Reader to view)
"Current
Critiques of the Consortium Study by House, Hauser, Orfield, and
Moore" (This article is in pdf. format. Download
free Acrobat Reader to view)
WEB SITES
American
Federation of Teachers
Catalyst
Consortium
for Equity in Standards and Testing
Consortium
on Chicago School Research
Department
of Education
Designs
for Change |
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