Quotable:
???It might even be a reason for dismissal. We're teaching kids something that if they were to do it later, they could get in trouble for???If a student in college were to approach a professor to buy a grade, we would be frowning on that.???
???Rebecca Garland, chief academic officer for the NC Department of Public Instruction
???District nixes cash-for-grades fundraiser ,??? The News Observer (NC)
Notable:
27.6:
Percentage of South Carolina 9th graders who were retained for another freshman year in 2004-5, according to a new report on the ???9th grade bulge,??? which refers to the uncommonly high number of students who must repeat that grade.
???Still a Freshman: Examining the Prevalence and Characteristics of Ninth-Grade Retention Across Six States ,??? Everyone Graduates Center