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By defining metrics to evaluate the the schools, you are defining what will be covered in school.  [/quote]
Yes!  That's the point.  Before every school had different "minimum" standards.  Kids were graduating high school unable to read.

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That's what "being held back" is for. But schools don't do that now, because it might hurt someone's self-esteem. Please.[/quote]

You're repeating conventional wisdom and not speaking from a position of knowledge.

Self-esteem has nothing to do with policies discouraging retention.  Research is quite clear that having students repeat a grade isn't effective unless accompanied by targeted and intensive supports and interventions.  If the student didn't learn it the way it was taught the first time around, why would repeating it yield different results?  Schools need to identify why a studnet isn't learning and offer differentiated instruction, not just subjecting a student to the same teaching methods that weren't effective previously.  http://www.nasponline.org/about_nasp/positionpapers/WhitePaper_GradeRetentionandSocialPromotion.pdf 
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