English Explanatory Dictionary

social promotion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The practice of promoting a student to the next grade only at the end of the current school year, regardless of when or whether they learned the necessary material, in order to keep them with their peers by age.

Word forms

social promotion social promotions
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