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Social Promotion or Retention? Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right.
Parker, Dennis R. – Leadership, 2001
With passage of several recent laws, the California State legislature intended to end social promotion, replacing it with a system of prevention, intervention, and retention. The "strategic schooling" approach depends on three elements: targets (both students and content), continuous feedback via assessments, and organizational and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cybernetics, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education