SOCIAL PROMOTION VS. RETENTION

Should I Allow My Child to Be Retained? Questions and Issues for Parents
The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2000

"Ending Social Promotion"
Education Week, March 15, 2000

Information Alert: Recent Grade Retention Research and Experience
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education

Ending Social Promotion: Results From the First Two Years
(A report on Chicago's campaign to end social promotion) (PDF File)
Chicago Consortium on School Research, December 1999.
( The educational research and advocacy organization Design for Change offers criticism of the above report.)

Should We End Social Promotion? Truth and Consequences (PDF file)
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 1999

Taking Responsibility for Ending Social Promotion: A Guide for Educators and State and Local Leaders
U.S. Department of Education, May 1999

Education and Social Promotion: What is the Debate? (PDF file)
Center on Education Policy, April 8, 1999

Education Accountability: First the School Systems, Then the Students.
National Urban League, March 19, 1999

Grade Retention: Prevalence, Timing and Effects
CRESPAR, March 1999

Alternatives to Social Promotion and Grade Retention
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1999

The Predictable Failure of Chicago's Student Retention Program (PDF file)
School of Education University of Colorado, Boulder, November 1998.

Doing Something About Social Promotions
National Center for Policy Analysis, March 1998.

Passing on Failure: District Promotion Policies and Practices
American Federation of Teachers

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