Grade Retention

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• Grade Level Retention - The primary goal of student retention is to give students a year to grow and to master the academic tasks of their current grade level before advancing to the next level. However, a large body of research draws strong and almost unanimous conclusions that retention does not help students on either personal adjustment or academic success.
  
  
• Alternatives to social promotion and grade retention - President Clinton proposed adding a provision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would encourage states and school districts to end social promotion.
  
  
  
  
• Retention in the Early Grades - a review of research. Because retention and promotion practices are expressions of beliefs about purposes of education, retention is a complex and emotionally laden issue. This guide is designed to help you examine your district's or school's retention policies and practices and to determine the impact of your retention practices.
  
  
• Social Promotion and Students with Disabilities - This policy study looks at existing and emerging state policies on social promotion to determine the extent to which students with disabilities are included or excluded. Results reflect the status of state policies at one point in time, as determined from publicly available state documents and statutes. The review is meant to contribute to thoughtful policy development and stimulate consideration of issues associated with high stakes testing to assess accountability for students with and without disabilities. (Provided by LD Online)
  
  
• National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities - The National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) believes that it is imprudent to profess that ending "social promotion" or expanding grade retention will address the problems faced by children who find it difficult to learn.
  
  
• No Child Left behind - Wrightslaw

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