In several states across the nation, there has been successful drive to end "social promotion." In other words, 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 issue there is little evidence that making children repeat a grade has a positive effect If anything, research suggests that forcing children to repeat a grade hurts rather than helps their academic performance.In 1989,University of Georgia Professor Thomas Holms surveyed sixty-three studies that compared the performance of kids who had repeated a grade with those who had received a social promotion. Holms found that most of the children who had repeated a grade had a poorer record of academic 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