N.C. Scrapping Policy Meant to End Social Promotion
North Carolina is dropping a decade-old policy that required end-of-the-year exams for 3rd, 5th, and 8th graders to ensure students were mastering their grade-level subjects. The state board of education concluded this month that the policy didn’t...
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