id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
epaa-1716	Huddleston, Andrew Prescott	“Making the Difficult Choice”: Understanding Georgia’s Test-Based Grade Retention Policy in Reading	2015	31	.pdf	application/pdf	16414	863	58	Mrs. Thomas and most of the teachers were against such extreme use of retention, but felt they had little to say in the 2 Three groups (the Legislative Black Caucus, the Georgia Parent Teacher Association, and the Georgia Association of Educators) lobbied the Georgia legislature to not base student retention on a single test score. However, believing that retaining students would ultimately reproduce the inequities the policy claimed to address, the teachers and administrators used an appeals procedure to ensure that retention was not based solely on test scores.	cache/epaa-1716.pdf	txt/epaa-1716.txt