Bumper Summer School Crop Yields Mixed Test Results
As summer school wound down in recent weeks, districts reported mixed results from unprecedented efforts to squeeze more instruction into the calendar.
Chicago claimed a record-high promotion rate for its summer students. But New Orleans saw hundreds of struggling 8th graders ignore summer school or fail to benefit enough from it to go on to 9th grade.
If a general trend stood out, it was the continuing growth of such programs, especially in big-city districts. As long as schools continue to crack down on social promotion—the practice of advancing students by age rather than academic readiness—it seems that classrooms will be as crowded as swimming pools in the summer. ( "More Districts Add Summer Coursework," ...
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