{"id":163,"date":"2004-04-05T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2004-04-05T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T08:24:23","slug":"mps_life_death_of_8t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"MPS: Life &#038; Death of 8-T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/apr04\/219928.asp\">Alan Borsuk writes<\/a> about the demise of Milwaukee Public Schools 8-T program, an initiative &#8220;aimed at dealing with a problem that perplexes urban school districts across the United States: what to do with the large number of eighth-graders who are not really ready for high school&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Extensive research indicates that neither holding students back a grade nor promoting them unprepared fosters achievement,&#8221; the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory said in a report summarizing the issue.<br \/>\nSo what do you do with such students?<br \/>\nIn 1997, the Milwaukee School Board voted to require students to meet a set of proficiency standards before they graduate from middle school in an effort to deal with a &#8220;social promotion&#8221; problem that made ninth grade, in the words of one MPS administrator, &#8220;a parking lot&#8221; for hundreds of kids who were doing poorly.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Borsuk writes about the demise of Milwaukee Public Schools 8-T program, an initiative &#8220;aimed at dealing with a problem that perplexes urban school districts across the United States: what to do with the large number of eighth-graders who are not really ready for high school&#8221;. Extensive research indicates that neither holding students back a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}