Social Promotion Definition

noun
The advancement of a student to the next class or grade even though the student has not made adequate academic progress to learn the material being taught.
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Social Promotion Sentence Examples

  • However, the social promotion policies common in the 1970s, where students were kept with their age peers regardless of readiness for the next grade, does not produce academic success for at-risk students either.

  • Research suggests that social promotion and grade retention are not educationally effective policies.

  • McKay, Elizabeth, ed. Moving Beyond Retention and Social Promotion.

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