Grade inflation, or social promotion, is a practice in schools that is becoming lass popular because of some restrictions by the law to use this methodology. Grade inflation is when teachers promote students to a higher grade even though they are under their ability level for that grade.
             According to Albert Shanker, President of The American Federation of Teachers, in an article from ¡§Where We Stand¡ called Passing on Failure, he mentions a survey of Texas teachers that states,
             „« 68 percent of elementary school teachers had students who were promoted to the next grade level even though they had failed the class.
             „« 61 percent of middle school and junior high teachers had students who failed the course and were allowed to move on without repeating it.
             „« 40 percent said that a student they had recommended for retention was promoted.
             „« 78 percent disagreed with the statement that students in their school are not promoted unless they have earned the necessary passing grades.
             These figures are the basically the same, both national and state, according to Shanker.
             More research reveals that most students, if they are retained, are normally held back at least once between kindergarten and second grade. (Westchester Institute) In the same article it is revealed that most students that are retained are of the lower socio-economic class, male, African-American, Hispanic, and a likelihood of the parents not even graduating high school.
             President Clinton wanted to stop social promotion, as said in his State of the Union address to the nation. (Westchester Institute) Some ways to help resolve this problem is,
             „« Smaller schools/¡housing¡
             „« Multi-year advisory structures
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