Review of Florida's Policy to End Social Promotion

Getting Farther Ahead by Staying Behind: A Second-Year Evaluation of Florida's Policy to End Social Promotion

The report concludes that Florida's recently instituted policy of test-based retention has helped academically struggling elementary school students improve their reading.

The report is available here:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/cr_49.pdf

A review argues that the report overstates the effect of retention on student achievement:
http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/ttreviews/EPSL-0610-215-EPRU.pdf
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