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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Social Promotion"”.
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Social Promotion of High School Students
… more students to meet standards, the issue of social promotion, or the policy of allowing a student who did not meet requirements to continue on to the next grade, has come under fire. In this thesis, the objective was to analyze the effectiveness of the policy of social promotion. To do this, …
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Socially promoted students' lived experience of transition into high school
… decisively agree on a preference for either social promotion or grade retention. Throughout history varied opinions have stimulated divergent public policy and practice. The longstanding divergence becomes understandable in light of consistently inconclusive achievement results. Nevertheless, …
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Public Education Fuels The Debate: Academic Outcomes Of Students Socially Promoted From Eighth Grade To High School
… and completion of middle school students socially promoted from eighth grade to high school in a small, urban school district during 2008 to 2012. Supported by research surrounding the development of public education, the debate of retention versus social promotion, and adolescent …
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Remedial Education: Addressing Contributing Factors
… or one-size-fits-all approach to teaching, social promotion with no mastery of coursework, and teaching to tests.</p>
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"Loing du Soleil" : architectural practice in Quebec City during the French regime
… important means by which to establish power and social status in the colony. The architectural qualities of their buildings, expressing the prestige of the various institutions, were by the same token a source of competition and conflict among them. This competition was witnessed by the local …
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I Ain't Do Nothing: The Social and Academic Experiences of Black Males in a Dismantled School
… bring to school. I also argue that in light of social promotion and lowered expectations for academic excellence, for some students, schools become prison preparatory institutions (PPI) and structure experiences for students to be "pushed out" and primed to enter the criminal justice system. …
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The Determinants Of Student Achievement And High School Completion In Michigan
… achievement.</p> <p>District policies regarding social promotion may be explicit or, more likely, implicit. In either case, this widespread practice raises important questions about in-grade retention and the requirements that must be met in order for a student to meet graduation and grade level …
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Representations of convicts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture
… about urban illegibility and illegitimate social promotion. Chapter 3 explores a competing tradition which portrayed convicts as sublime, betraying the ambiguity of nineteenth-century attitudes to imprisonment, which could be a sign of infamy or of martyrdom. Sublime convicts reassured …
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How is a Child's Perception of Self Affected by Retention?
<p>The purpose of this study was to inform educators of the impact of grade retention on a child's perception of self, and to provide recommendations and practical applications for educators in the future.</p> <p>Although the long-term effects of grade retention are still unclear, the number of …