In several states across the nation, there has been successful drive to end "social promotion." In other ords, children who do not achieve the required score on a standardized test will no longer be despite to the next grade. Instead, they will have to repeat the grade they have finished. Yet he calls for ending social of them from politicians looking for a crowd-pleasing is little evidence that making children repeat a grade has a positive effect If anything, esearch suggests that forcing children to repeat a grade hurts rather than helps their academic that University of Georgia Professor Thomas Holms surveyed sixty-three studies compared the performance of kids who had repeated a grade with those who had received a of promotion. Holms found that most of the children who had repeated a grade had record lcademic performance than the children who had been promoted despite poor test scores. A similar study of New York City children in the 1980s revealed that the children who repeated a grade were more likely to drop out upon reaching high school. The call to end social promotion may have a nice ring to it in political speeches. Yet there is little indication that it does students any real good Main Idea: Across the country, many states have abolished the policy of "social promotion