unprepared for the next grade level. Due to unprepared students, schools rank low on standardized tests, which creates a bad reputation nationally. Parents looking into schools for their children don't want to purposely send their child to a low ranking school. Businesses lack confidence in an applicant holding only a high school diploma as proof of requisite skills. (www.ed.gov) Large sums of money must be allotted to remedial training courses for workers of the socially promoted generation.There are many suggested ways to end social promotion according to and executive summary found at www.ed.gov. The setup of curriculum and testing should be changed to be more firm and less biased. Extensive progress reporting as a communication tool between students, teachers and parents should also be mandated on a regular basis. A "pop" national test should be given for the next several years to possiblly clean the system (school) of the socially promoted generation. Without preparation for this test, we can more accurately determine the level or skill group of a student. Results of tests could place the student in the appropriate multiage looping skill group (MALSG). MALSG is a concept that I have made up with the help of two individual proposals various age groups and looping. MALSG combines students of various ages with similar weaknesses and strengths with the concept of looping - keeping the students and teachers together for an extended number of years. The curriculum should be determined the year before for the multiage looping skill groups. The curriculum can then be submitted to a testing company so that tests can be made based entirely on that curriculum. (Jessness p266) This would require the teacher to meet the curriculum or experience mass failure of the MALSG. Perhaps the mass failure would be an indication that the teacher is not meeting his or her objectives. Teachers would not be allowed to view the tests until th...
