tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post8666458863083539086..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: 8th Grade Holdover Policy Designed to Force Dropoutsed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-82726180110580152492008-01-21T11:14:00.000-05:002008-01-21T11:14:00.000-05:00Norm you are falling into the Bloomberg trap once ...Norm you are falling into the Bloomberg trap once again. Never take these people at their word. You and Leonie should know better. This is all public relations and nothing more.<BR/><BR/>What will more than likely happen is that more teachers will be pressured to mark the tests and their classes very leniently to push the kids along. Teachers will be told that a certain percentage must pass or else. <BR/><BR/>Ironically, what is being created is more social promotion. It's social promotion through fear and intimidation of teachers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-73519640150005720152008-01-20T18:17:00.000-05:002008-01-20T18:17:00.000-05:00Leonie Haimson is right to the point:"As the resea...Leonie Haimson is right to the point:<BR/><BR/>"As the research overwhelmingly shows, holding back kids doesn’t work."<BR/><BR/>Since the battle for high stakes testing at the beginning of his first term, the Bloomberg has undoubtedly has a set policy for the DOE administration to simply ignore inconvenient research. <BR/><BR/>(The policy is undoubtedly part of Bloomberg's "vision" for America. One can reasonably speculate that he will use his holdover policy to play up to that segment of the country that doesn't have a care for scholarship. E. i. the folks who don't want to learn the real, but complex answer to the question "Why are kids who can't pass promoted anyway?"<BR/><BR/>Yet ironically in the end Bloomberg's DOE has given us more data to support the conclusion that holding kids back doesn't work: "In fact, if this policy [of holding students over] worked, the DOE 7th grade retention would have caused a rise in 8th grade achievement rates, but instead as the recent NAEPs show, our 8th grade test scores have been stagnant over many years."<BR/><BR/>"It’s a shame that this administration refuses to take action to actually improve the opportunities for students to succeed, but rather insists on increasing the chances that they will fail."<BR/><BR/>I just hope this policy and the multitude of other Bloomberg policies that have been hurtful to the majority of people of this city makes their way across the country if Bloomberg begins a presidential bid in earnest!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-73413817820730452842008-01-18T17:01:00.000-05:002008-01-18T17:01:00.000-05:00Norm- we never promote 8th graders,if they don't m...Norm- we never promote 8th graders,if they don't meet the exact same promotional criteria that Bloomklein spelled out. Can they really be that clueless?17 (really 15) more yearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05136846071554141284noreply@blogger.com