Social Promotion

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Social Promotion
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• Foundations II
• November 21, 2003
• Completed by
• Heather OConnell
• Ron Unson

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If a student fails to meet the requirements, they
may either be Socially Promoted or Retained
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• Social Promotion allowing students who have
  failed to meet performance standards and academic
  requirements to pass on to the next grade with
  their peers instead of completing or satisfying
  the requirements.
• Retention student is held back in the grade
  level that they did not pass.

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Results of Social Promotion(Passing on Failure)

• Unprepared for college and future employment
• Undermines students futures when they fail to
  develop critical study and job-related skills
• Reduces the value of diplomas
• Decreases other students motivation
• Does nothing to increase student achievement
• Little worth
• Ignores and hides student failure

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Results of Retention
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• Drop-out rates increase by 20-40 percent
• Lowered self-esteem and reduced self confidence
• Typically do worse academically
• Higher deficit in the area of reading
• Increased behavior problems
• Increased risk of health-compromising behaviors
  such as emotional distress, cigarette use,
  alcohol use, etc
• Generates anxiety
• Every 9 seconds a child drops out of school

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Both Social Promotion and Retention are
inadequate choices because
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• Neither choice is preventative of failure
• Both try to remedy the problems after they have
  occurred and it is usually too late --- damage
  has been done
• Neither closes the learning gap for low-achieving
  students
• Neither is an appropriate response to the
  academic needs of students experiencing
  difficulty in mastering content

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Alternatives
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• Provide early reading programs
• Implement tutoring and mentoring programs with
  peer, cross-age, or adult tutors
• Provide appropriate education services
• Extend learning time
• Restructuring the learning environment
• Individualized improvement
• Alternative schools
• Transitional programs
• Summer school
• multi-age and multi-grades
• Schools-within-a-school
• Looping

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Early Intervention is occurring more to serve as
prevention!
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Works Sited
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• http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/at
  risk/at800.htm
• Retention vs. Social Promotion http//www.edletter
  .org/past/issues/1999-jf/retention.shtml
• Social promotion and grade retention
  http//wwwcsteep.bc.edu/CTESTWEB/retention/retenti
  on.html
• Psychologists view http//www.nasponline.org/info
  rmation/pospaper_graderetent.html
• Ending Social Promotion - http//www.ed.gov/pubs/s
  ocialpromotion/intro.html
• Social promotions and students with disabilities
• http//www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/legal_legislati
  ve/nceo_synthesis_report34.html
• Should we end social promotion? Truth vs
  Consequence http//216.239.39.104/search?qcache6
  ulZLs7fphIJwww.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-06.pdf
  22socialpromotion222Bcurrentstatisticshlen
  ieUTF-8
• http//highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072397810/s
  tudent_view0/chapter10/multiple_choice_quiz.html
• No social promotion no kidding http//www.national
  forum.com/16woelfel.htm