All the aforementioned categories included both practices implemented in the schools to directly promote students' PA and factors behind the successful promotion process.
The NUS exists to defend, extend and promote students' rights, not to gamble them away.
But the zeal for education has failed to promote students' creativity or critical thinking skills.
Currently, teachers decide whether to promote students based on grades, test scores and attendance, and principals approve those decisions.
The aim is to promote students and their work to future employers, help them be more creative and recruit new students to the university.
Currently, teachers decide whether to promote students based on an array of criteria, including standardized test scores, grades and performance in class.
Nonetheless, until the law changes, it is still a legal requirement and can be used to promote students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness.
"How am I going to explain it to the superintendent?" Although Indiana did not use the test to promote students, as many states do, the scores gave politicians and educators a yardstick to measure student progress.
There is evidence that, at least in some corners of the city's sprawling school system, pressure is still applied to teachers and administrators to promote students who otherwise would be held back.
The results yesterday are being closely watched partly because Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy had staked his reputation on a successful summer program that strengthened the board's new determination not to promote students automatically.
Middle-school teachers and teachers' union officials have complained that eighth-grade teachers in particular have been systematically pressured by their principals to promote students who received failing grades, to avoid burdening overcrowded middle schools with problem students.
