. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . 5 91 64 1 75 4 82 1 94 65 2 76 2 1 83 3 97 67 1 77 4 84 2 98 68 0 78 3 85 1 99 70 2 79 1 88 1 72 3 80 1 90 2 PROMOTION, NON-PROMOTION, AND PART-TIME 573 Fig. 4 53I U 65 LTh li u f- —1 p n nn n r~i 10 15 85 qo iS lOO Fig. 4 is a graphic representation of the data in Table VIII. The rate of promo-tion is represented on the horizontal scale and the number of schools on the verticalscale. The median rate of promotion is indicated by the short vertical line on thehorizontal scale. (d) In Different Gra
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . 5 91 64 1 75 4 82 1 94 65 2 76 2 1 83 3 97 67 1 77 4 84 2 98 68 0 78 3 85 1 99 70 2 79 1 88 1 72 3 80 1 90 2 PROMOTION, NON-PROMOTION, AND PART-TIME 573 Fig. 4 53I U 65 LTh li u f- —1 p n nn n r~i 10 15 85 qo iS lOO Fig. 4 is a graphic representation of the data in Table VIII. The rate of promo-tion is represented on the horizontal scale and the number of schools on the verticalscale. The median rate of promotion is indicated by the short vertical line on thehorizontal scale. (d) In Different Grades of the Same School.—Finally, the rateof promotion, at the end of the February-June term, 1911, varied fromgrade to grade in the same school. This is shown by Fig. 5. Fig 5 rep-resents the ^ariations from grade to grade in the per cent, of promotionin the school, of the fifty-one selected by chance, having the highestper cent, of total promotion, in the school having the lowest per cent,of total promotion, and in the school having the median rate of totalpromotion. Fig. 5 iOD\ H5- «S-. I A 18 ZA Z8 JA 30 C-\ 4B 5A 5-8 6A 66 lA nS 8A SB Fig. 5. a—School having highest rate of total promotion,b—School having median rate of total —School having lowest rate of total promotion. 574 EDUCATIONAL INVESTIGATION 3) Conclusions Such variations as the foregoing in the rate of promotion would notoccur had promotions been made on a mere mechanical basis. Indeed,the very presence of such variations indicates, despite the uniformity inthe rate of total promotion in the several grades in the different boroughsand in the Greater City, that judgment was exercised in the making ofpromotions at the end of the February-June term, 1911, and, hence, that,on the whole, the children promoted were the pupils who should havebeen advanced. 5. Increase in the Rate of Promotion To affirm that promotions at the end of the February-June term,1911, were not made mechanically is not to d
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