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To: Rambi who wrote (425)	8/20/2001 3:34:30 PM
From: epicure	of 51716

I read this today- it struck me as a very interesting idea. Half grades prepare lagging students for promotion August 17, 2001 Posted: 10:26 AM EDT (1426 GMT) ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- Nearly 500 struggling students who haven't learned enough to advance to the next grade will start school this fall in "half-grades." They will be 3.5, 5.5 or 8.5 students instead of fourth-, sixth- and ninth-graders. School officials said the program makes St. Paul the first district in the nation to advance students incrementally. "It is the only (program) of its kind that we know of," said St. Paul schools spokeswoman Christine Wroblewski, adding that the district's research showed that only Florida had an even similar policy of incremental advancement. The lagging St. Paul students will be channeled into a new program, where they will do intensive work in reading, writing and math. If they do well there and in summer school next year, they will rejoin their peers in fall 2002. The program is a key part of Superintendent Patricia Harvey's effort to end social promotion, the practice of passing students on to the next grade regardless of whether they've mastered their work.

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