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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?In the final analysis education is not competitive. All students should learn as much as they are capable of adsorbing.The only real fault is to attempt to limit their learning.What is wanted is some very careful failure analysis.What we need to know is what is limiting learning.We may be able to fix some of that. -
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?-
Done Well, Differentiation Works
Carol Ann Tomlinson, professor of education, University of Virginia
"Is the primary goal a separate room for students with particular needs, or should our primary goal be high-quality learning experiences wherever a student is taught?"
Frederick M. Hess
"RAND Corporation scholars have previously determined that low-achieving students benefit when placed in mixed-ability classrooms (faring about five percentage points better than those placed in lower-track classes) but that high-achievers fared six percentage points worse in such general classes."
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291520-6688%28199623%2915:4%3C623::AID-PAM7%3E3.0.CO;2-J/abstract -
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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.-
Acknowledging the Trade-Offs
Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
"But self-interest and a proper respect for all children demand that we wrestle with such decisions and pay more than lip service to the needs of advanced students. Instead, in the past decade, many reformers have sought to stifle those who dare even to suggest there are trade-offs — branding such sentiments ill-informed or even racist."
The best bad argument money can buy.
Education is not essentially competitive.
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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.-
Unrealized Potential
Michael J. Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Everyone should have the right to fail.It doesn't look good on the school's record.
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House Sets Up Battle on Funding Social Programs
The tea party just does not give up.
There will be no fight. This will not pass the senate.
We are looking at a year of continuing resolutions. CorbinKappler
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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?Possibly.Probably not.The really sharp ones teach themselves if they can find the materials.
Rand says it does. I should dig more deeply but not now.
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Crossing Over, and Over
Going home.
Making money.Two different groups. -
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.-
The Ideal vs. the Reality
C. Kent McGuire, Southern Education Foundation
"Where you go to school matters. For instance, a recent study of what determines a high school’s inclination to offer Advanced Placement courses suggests that parent and student demand is key. The authors suggest that demand for rigorous courses is weak in communities serving low-income students. In my opinion, this is where issues of fairness surface, because much of the evidence on tracking reveals that in schools serving high concentrations of poor children, students are more likely to be routed to curricular streams that do not clearly lead to post-secondary education or other valued options. Policy attention needs to be directed toward increasing the demand for rigor in these communities — and even more so, to increasing the capacity to offer rigorous programs."
Blame the victim. The parents do not demand advanced programs.
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Adam Clarke
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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?"By trying to teach children of varying abilities in one classroom, is American society underdeveloping some of its brightest young people?"Quite possibly.Mostly the brightest ones teach themselves. Access to materials is the problem.
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tomhkirk
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Never Heard That Before
Davos, SwitzerlandThomas Friedman looks old enough to have seen the sixties.He should hear political instability until it does not apply.
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Marie Burns
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BorowitzReport
I look but it does not stay in my head.
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Online Tools Help Bands Do Business
A classic example of product without production.
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A New Goal for an Old Idea - Room for Debate
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A New Goal for an Old Idea
Cassanda L. Davis, Lowell Elementary, Winfield, Kan.
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.Small classes sorted by capability. It means more teachers and more rooms. -
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Shloime Perel
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The Tao of Moonbeam
What Jerry Brown needs to do is collect some taxes and pay the bills.There is no money at the bottom. He must collect from the rich.The ones who object to paying their share would never vote for him.
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One of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago
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ABC News and Yahoo News Announce Content Deal
Mutual destruction is more than I can hope for.Learning seems unlikely. -
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.There is no substitute for a teacher's attention. -
Toil and Trouble Over the Caldron That Is Greece
This is getting old.
There is no resolution.
Greece will be seen to have defaulted. About two weeks is an estimate I have read.The rich countries are backing up the banks. -
Say No to the Keystone XL
The Canadians are perfectly able to run a pipeline across B.C.
The railroad goes there. Equipment can go by rail and barge or just rail. Take it through Chicago. -
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."Such a system will accelerate the adoption of clean energy by bridging information gaps that are dissuading investments and inhibiting energy-saving behavior." Wishful thinking.Anyone who wants to know, knows.The problem is that the costs are born by others or are not seen as significant. A really stiff fossil carbon tax is what is required. Tax it where it comes out of the ground or across our border.Information is not the problem. We are not that energy hungry.
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