The Arizona Daily Star has an excellent series on the problem of social promotion in Tuscon-area public schools. From Part 1:

In the 2006-07 school year alone, nine in 10 students were moved to the next grade level, but data show that nearly a third of them failed basic courses in English, math, science or social studies. At least 94,000 students failed essential classes during the past six years.

I am confident that we would find similar statistics among North Carolina’s school districts, but little has been done to address the problem. Social promotion and low standards is clearly not on the General Assembly’s radar.

HT: Joanne Jacobs