Social Promotion Essay

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Robert Fried, professor of education at Northwestern University described in his book The Game of School the situation that some students are in with their education as that, “The environment of most schools regularly produces a crop of ‘losers’, either temporary or permanent. Temporary losers… are children whose talents go mostly unrecognized by their teachers and fellow students“ This is very important because if someone is depressed about who they are in school, grades it is extremely important for them to realize that they are not necessarily doomed to failure for the rest of their lives. There is a not insignificant chance of them fitting into the “temporary loser” category, in which case they can succeed in the real world. I have had several classes so far where the grades I get do not reflect my competence with the subject. It isn’t the student’s fault that this happens because it is the responsibility of the teacher to give relevant grades and the school system’s responsibility to allow the teachers to give relevant grades for their students. As I have the same teachers as my peers, it is not unreasonable to assume that it must be the same with them too. If this is the case, then it is important to keep in mind that the class grades might be misleading as to how successful you will be

School is slave labor. Rather than enjoying or learning from their classes, students are forced to do useless work that will often be forgotten immediately. Grades are meant to show much a student understands a class, but instead are used as a scale of how well a student can regurgitate answers onto a test. Students only work for good grades because of the threat of being punished for failure, and the promise of reward for passing. The punishments in this case are detention or trouble from teachers, and the rewards are making the honor roll or getting bragging rights. The real reward for learning should be having new knowledge, but this is not taken into consideration. Jerry Farber, a professor at U.S.D, made the strong claim that grades are useless and harmful in his essay, “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System.” I wholeheartedly agree with Farber’s objection to our current grading system.

    When researching into the topic of grade inflation one begins to see a multitude of problems arise that have been previously ignored and have been left to continue wreaking havoc on the educational system. Mark Oppenheimer shares a similar points of view in his article where he discussed his opinion, that grade inflation is one of the much lesser issues and that we need to be focusing on other things.(other things, just quote his article). His ideas are countered by the ideas of people such as Rojstaczer who argue that grade inflation is becoming an out of control issue that needs to be fixed (add in quotes from the book and article)

According to the National Association of School Psychologists (2003), each year, schools retain as many as 15% or more than 2.4 million American students. Other studies found that between 30% and 50% of all students experience retention at least once by the time they are freshman in high school (Robertson, 2001). For students in urban districts, the estimated retention rate is approximately 50%. The National Center for Education Statistics (2006), estimated that the number of students retained at least once in their school career ranged from 10% to 20%... Of those retained, black students experienced retention more than twice as much as white students, and boys twice as much as girls. The controversial practice of grade retention is a concern

Many researchers have been interested and have conducted different experiments on whether retention causes positive or negative effects. One group of college professors followed two groups of students in Florida: the first group barely passed the reading test and got to continue to fourth grade, the second group barely missed the mark and had to repeat third grade. The researchers continued to watch these students for the following eight years; they saw that the major effects started to fade, but after a few years the kids that were retained had fewer remedial classes and higher GPS’s when they got to high school (Kamenetz, 2017). The common belief is when a kid is retained, there is an increased risk of them falling behind in higher grades

As an idea social pedagogy first started being used around the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany as a way of describing alternatives to the dominant models of schooling. However, by the second half of the twentieth century social pedagogy became increasingly associated with social work and notions of social education in a number of European countries.

There are also various reasons of why holding a child back could help the child. Holding the child back an extra year could mean extra success. They could gain an extra year of school. The extra year of school could go toward more practice for a future career they could want. Also, staying another year could mean expanding their ability to learn. By choosing to let he child retain and gain an extra year they could expand their learning ability making it easier to accept and follow instructions. A other good reason for letting the child retain is be have extra hard work could benefit in the future. Extra work could mean a better future because of the more

Grade retention, the act of holding students back a grade, often occurs during the early stages of schooling. During the early stages of education, students look to their parents and teachers to instill the importance of education. It is essential that early on students have support from their parents and teachers, working together to motivate and teach the skills necessary to succeed in school. However, many factors can lead to early grade retention, which later influences a student’s future education.

Living in different countries, we always wonder if everyday life routines are the same. Some of these routines, would include education, social life, and most important of all career perspectives. Rules and procedures vary from the different business you apply to however do the different rules and procedures vary from the countries that business thrive from? The purpose of this essay is to describe the differences and similarities from the National Association of Social Workers and the International Federation of Social Workers.

Moore argues that many schools are focusing more on building self-esteem rather than education standards in students. Self-esteem comes within you. Whereas, grades emanate from, how much the students gain knowledge through classes. The author believes that through the low grades, the students can improve their performance by evaluating academic their performance. I completely agree with him, as grades help them to know how to improve their standards and also how to give their best in future.

Many colleges and universities throughout the United States and several other countries face a common problem. Student retention is a growing problem across the nation for all ethnic groups and all ages. Each individual who chooses to drop out of school has their own personal reasons as to why they do. However, many drops out can be completely avoided. When students drop out they are not clearly thinking about how it’s going to affect their future, the future of their children and even grandchildren. Although there are several reasons as to why students drop out of school, we will be exploring a few as it relates to why student retention is a growing problem.

Annually, it is estimated that roughly 15% of students are retained, representing approximately 2.4 million children (Jimerson, 2001; Mattison, 2000). In general, children who repeat a grade are 30% more likely to drop out of school as compared to their promoted peers and the retention trend is increasing, up approximately 12% from 1980 to 1992 (Owings & Magliaro, 1998). Retained students have an approximately 60% chance of dropping out of school by the 12th grade and those students who have been retained twice increase their chance to 90% (Parker, 2001). Rumberger (1995) identified grade retention as the single most powerful predictor of dropping out. It is estimated that 40% of the total number of repeaters are from the lowest SES brackets compared to only 8.5% from the highest SES groups (Owings & Magliaro, 1998). Research by Meisels (1993) discovered that more than two-thirds of all retentions occur before fourth grade. These discouraging statistics also come at an enormous expense; grade retention costs approximately 10 billion dollars per year (Natale, 1991).

Social promotion and retention are used for various reasons. Retention is implemented when students have not met the general requirements to begin the next grade. The question that will be addressed is how do social promotion and retention differ? The overall meaning of both will be addressed to give the reader a better understanding of the two. Social promotion is the practice of promoting a student to the next grade level even if the minimum academic factors have not been satisfied. Retention is the approach that is most widely practiced. This is the retention of a grade to reinforce academics. The pros and cons, static’s, and drop out rates will be discussed. All of these

Today there is a great need for social service organizations. The population of a lot of cities and countries has grown, creating the need for more shelters, soup kitchens, and so on. Most of these organizations are church based and community founded. Then there are others that are funded by federal and state government.