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[b]My understanding from the information sessions is that BASIS does not engage in social promotion. Each child must test into the next grade by passing comprehensive exams at the end of the year.  If a child is woefully unprepared and cannot be caught up by the support staff, he will spend multiple years in the fifth grade until he either learns what is required for promotion to the sixth grade or withdraws to attend a school that promotes socially.[/b]

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THAT is going to create big, big problems for the school, and very quickly.[/quote]

The far bigger problem is the status quo.

If kids haven't mastered the material, why should they be allowed to advance?

Social promotion is precisely why we have lots of kids graduating from DC high schools barely literate, barely able to do basic math, woefully underprepared to enter responsible adulthood and the workforce.

You aren't doing kids any favors by giving them a pass on things that they need to know in order to function productively, all it does is pass the problem along and compound it even further.  [/quote]

That is incorrect.  The research is quite negative on retention, and/or "test-based" promotion.  It's not that anyone is in favor of social promotion, but the data on retention is even worse.

http://www.education.ucsb.edu/jimerson/retention/CSP_RetentionDropout2002.pdf

http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/nasp_position_stmt.php?type=subject&id=10

http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/grade_retention.php

http://www.news.wisc.edu/3389

http://www.nasponline.org/communications/spawareness/Grade%20Retention.pdf

http://edr.sagepub.com/content/39/2/110.abstract

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