Quality or Quantity Part II- If Social Promotion or Retention Doesn’t Work, What Will?
If you haven’t read Part I, please read it first! In my last post I told you about a student I was working with who did not master many skills from previous grade levels but was still passed to the next grade. The material got harder each year but he still didn’t know the basics. It was snowballing. And yet he was passed onto the next grade. Along with that complication is if grading is truly standards based, based on a skill reached, versus behavior, there is a lack of cl