"Heresy! I say, "Heresy"! Focusing on "excellence"
rather than "equity" in math education?"
A fellow traveler in education circles sent and remarked (above) on an article from Educational Leadership praising the long discarded teaching technique of ability grouping in the classroom:
A
school in Arizona was able to curb the exodus of its top students to nearby
charter schools by clustering students in the classroom. In cluster grouping
models, all students in a grade level are grouped according to their ability
and achievement levels. A cluster of either gifted or
high-achieving students -- one or the other -- is in every classroom, along
with only two or three other clusters. The method allows teachers
to spend more time with individual students and gives
gifted students a better chance to excel, according to Dina
Brulles, director of gifted education services at Paradise Valley Unified
School District in Phoenix, and Susan Winebrenner, founder and president of
Education Consulting Service.
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