%0 Journal Article %T Progress£¿o continuada: por que a revis£¿o dos ciclos? %A Vasconcelos %A Maria Lucia M. Carvalho %J Revista Lus¨®fona de Educa£¿£¿o %D 2008 %I Edi??es Universit¨¢rias Lus¨®fonas %X the present article aims to register and clarify the reducing of the period of the continuous progression cycles in s£¿o paulo state public schools. since 1997, the education secretary had adopted the rule of four-year cycles for the elementary schools. in 2007, these cycles were reduced and this alteration is the purpose of our discussion. %K continuous progression %K learning assessment %K cycle recovering. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-72502008000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en