http://jaypgreene.com/2008/06/30/anti-social-promotion/ With Help From Some Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jaypgreene.com/2008/06/30/anti-social-promotion/#comment-3689 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:55:14 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-3689 Georgia High Schools are finding out the consequences of all of this social promotion…especially in Math. Currently, most of the 9th graders are failing Math 1. Many schools are reporting that 80% to 90% of their 9th graders are failing. This directly correlates to the number of kids that failed the math portion of the CRCT last year. They were promoted anyway. Trust me; they were not promoted because they were great students and just tested poorly. They were promoted because the middle schools don’t want to deal with them!

]]> http://jaypgreene.com/2008/06/30/anti-social-promotion/#comment-1141 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:41:20 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-1141 Joanne Jacobs has a post on this issue here: http://joannejacobs.com/2008/07/03/f-is-a-georgia-pass/#comment-79408

]]> http://jaypgreene.com/2008/06/30/anti-social-promotion/#comment-1027 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:43:10 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-1027 [...] the law can be a problem for public education bureaucracies, too. The brilliant Jay Greene writes about Georgia school officials who flouted a law that required students to pass a test in order to move up to the next [...]

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