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The one effort that has been utterly and completely ignored has been ending social promotion.

If we only let students into the grade levels they are qualified for, passing rates would improve dramatically.

Students who are promoted above their skill level are a significant majority of the behavioral problems that plague our schools. Once a student is too out of their depth, the damage is close to permanent.

If we kept kids from entering 9th grade who were demonstrably incapable of doing high-school level work, we'd have significantly higher graduation rates, and could have high schools that are competitive with suburban and charter schools.
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