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Had to share this - I found it thought provoking and it made me smile and shake my head all at once.

http://rochestersage.org/2013/11/14/adventures-in-math-acceleration/

I read it that you can skip a grade if you get a high enough score on that grade's end of year test, but the 70% his kids could get without coaching wasn't enough. (Even though it would have been enough to go on, if they'd just been through that grade, I assume.)

I did raise my eyebrows at the amount of work he says it was. Maybe they were just playing very safe.

My inferences are that a petition in that district comes at the start of the school year, and they take the end-of-year test.

The time spent (1 hour a day all summer) was to do all of the next year's curriculum. It sounds like they did all of it, instead of pretesting the material themselves and compacting where warranted.

This was not how acceleration happened for my kids (1 under Everyday Math, 1 not) in a different system. "Adventures" in Math Acceleration in our house starts with scheduling and ends with asynchronicities in things like handwriting and organizational skills.