Social promotion is the practice of passing students along from grade to grade with their peers even if the students have not satisfied academic requirements or met performance standards at key grades ...

The practice of requiring students who don’t make sufficient academic progress to repeat a grade in school steadily declined from 2005 to 2010, new research shows. The study on grade retention was ...

Spruce Mountain Middle School held a promotion parade for grade eight students moving on to the high school Tusday, June 16. Grade eight social studies teacher Chris Sagner and physical education ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) will begin phasing out policies that have effectively resulted in the automatic promotion of students who have not met learning standards, including the ...