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social promotion  

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  • Social promotion refers to the practice within schools of allowing students to progress to the next grade level with their peers regardless of whether or not they have mastered the academic skills and content of the current grade level. A student may be socially promoted even if not ready for the next grade due to complex social and psychological factors that make retention in the same grade equally undesirable. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Social Promotions]

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