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To: Paul Viapiano who wrote (10920)6/2/2003 9:55:24 PM
From: marcherRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
"There's only one thing that works and that is hard work by the student, parental participation and encouragement, and not babysitting and coddling students."

Paul, I agree. This is especially true for students with below average skills.

"Compulsory passing of students to the next grade level when they should be failing...it doesn't work..."

Unfortunately, retaining a student at a grade level really doesn't work. Excellent educational research, including meta-analysis, has found no positive long-term effects for student retention. A better approach is to extend the school day (after-school basic skills instruction) and extend the school year (summer school basic skills instruction). In both cases the solution is, simply, working harder at the appropriate instructional level. Reducing the teacher-student ratio for after-school and summer school classes is also likely to help these students gain the academic skills they need.

--Marc
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