Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy – even automatic promotion – in … persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of children with lower achievement does not hamper their ability or … their peer’s ability to perform at the next level. Alternatively, promoting students into grades for which they are not …

, policy makers reinstated the possibility to repeat grade 7, putting an end to the regime of “social promotion” applicable to …

repetition”.regime than under the “social promotion”regime. …

repeat grade 7, putting an end to the regime of “social promotion” that existed before. We use data from two waves of the …

In 2002, Florida adopted a test-based promotion policy in the third grade in an attempt to end social promotion …

correlates of school dropout and shows that not keeping pace is a key determinant of school dropout, even after controlling for … dropping out. Some evidence that credit constraints may be related to dropout is found, especially among males. …

Despite the fact that in Peru was observed an improvement in enrollment during the nineties, even performing better … than the rest of the Latin American countries, dropout and schooling delay persist avoiding a substantial increase in the … society’s education level. This research analyzes the dynamics of dropout during the school cycle and, at the same time …

information on returns or career planning skills on student dropout, academic achievement and plans to go to high school. Contrary … counseling on dropout may also be due to the high and growing wages for unskilled labor (high opportunity costs) in China …