Two problems: curriculum and leveling.
The what is truth problem and the it is easier to prevent learning than to encourage it.
-
Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift? - Room for Debate
Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?Yes. -
Done Well, Differentiation Works - Room for Debate
Certainly our most advanced learners need better than the content they are now being served. But is plucking them out of mainstream classrooms a solution?It has worked. -
Acknowledging the Trade-Offs in Differentiation - Room for Debate
Teachers tend to focus on the middle of the pack. Or, more typically of late, on the least proficient students.There is no 'of late' about it. -
Unrealized Potential - Room for Debate
In an 'all together' classroom, instructors will end up teaching toward the middle — far below the level that our advanced students need to achieve their full potential.Below the middle. -
House Sets Up Battle on Funding Social Programs
We will get no action from congress for another year.
I hope it is worth it. -
CorbinKappler
-
Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift? - Room for Debate
Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?Yes, among others.
-
-
Crossing Over, and Over
Prohibition does not work.
Ken Burns has a special running on PBS. -
In Classrooms, the Ideal vs. the Reality - Room for Debate
I hope that even in the “average” and “remedial” tracks, teachers are pushing students to perform beyond the arbitrary boundaries.Hope is easy. Action is much harder. -
Adam Clarke
-
Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift? - Room for Debate
Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?It costs all of us.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/trading-with-the-enemy/
-
-
tomhkirk
-
Never Heard That Before
Davos, SwitzerlandTom Friedman is not old enough and has read the wrong books.
-
222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
-
Marie Burns
“There will be a few walk-up tix at the 92nd St Y box office for my show tonight at 8. 92nd & Lex. Hope to see you there!”Yes, the debit card fee is egregious. -
Online Tools Help Bands Do Business
OK, first I need a fan base.
The people will pay if they can't avoid it easily. -
A New Goal for an Old Idea - Room for Debate
When instruction is geared to passing mandated tests, the idea of tailoring lessons to challenge those students who already “get it” goes to the bottom of the to-do list.YES. -
Shloime Perel
-
The Tao of Moonbeam
California has not begun to suffer from good sense.
-
-
One of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago
His family will enjoy the money.
The committee voted before he expired. The prize goes to his estate. -
ABC News and Yahoo News Announce Content Deal
Problems don't add, they multiply. -
Teachers Can Differentiate With Technology - Room for Debate
When students are at different levels, some will be bored by a lesson while others are confused -- and either can make students disruptive.True. Technology will not help. -
Toil and Trouble Over the Caldron That Is Greece
Europe is winning the race to destruction.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/defeatism/ -
Say No to the Keystone XL
Put it on a tanker in B.C.
-
A Smart Electricity Grid Is Crucial - Room for Debate
Once businesses and individuals can see what drives up their electric bills, a wide range of new energy business models will emerge.The benefit is to the utilities not to the consumers. We can look more easily at power consumption.
No comments:
Post a Comment