Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120416:17:34:00
Is that from zero to fourth grade, we're competing. we're doing well. from fourth grade on, our kids start falling behind. >> you are so right. this is the kind of information that people here are looking at very critically and saying, they cannot allow their children to fall behind. and so if they're struggling with reading in the fourth grade they say, let's give them a gift. hold them in third grade until they up that efficiency and proficiency in reading. and then move the child along. we used to have what they call social promotions. we still do. we just don't say that's what it is. becau...
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