The Fairfax County School Board plans to hold three meetings over the next two months to examine and discuss the range of programs and services offered to...
My understanding is that the issues to watch in Fairfax County (and the motivation for these meetings) are: -- possible elimination of bus service to the...
Posting on behalf of a friend: "I am (at the last-minute, admittedly) looking for some kind of computer camp in the later part of the summer. So far, I've...
As dozens of parents on this listserve will tell you, the place to go is TIC camp. www.ticcamp.com Heaven on earth for smart kids looking to learn some...
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2009/06/the_problem_of_tracking_in_mid.html At a seminar hosted last week by ACT on improving the quality of...
From: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2009/06/tracking_is_a_hot_button_issue.html As you know I'm new to this curriculum beat, and I gather from the...
At Cabin John did they also look at the scores for the highest performing students? Any idea what if any effect there was for these kids. Cathy ... From:...
... Do I understand this correctly: she cut the student teacher ratio by half, and then attributed the effect of that to "detracking"?? For such reasons,...
Here is the part I find troubling: "But she also acknowledged that the teachers and administrators in the school didn't look at the test-score data in any more...
Thanks for providing links to this interesting study. Although the study appears to be fairly rigorous with regard to internal validity and it concludes that...
Agreed, the anecdote doesn't tell us anything. I'm pretty sure the situation was not even accurately described. This sounds like the implementation of ...
... Indeed. In the limit, there would be one teacher per student, so that the student would have perfectly "tailored" instruction. Now tell me, would you...
... I understand that "detracking" proponents will not want their argument characterized this way, but it is a fair characterization of their policy proposals ...
46 States, D.C. Plan to Draft Common Education Standards By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 1, 2009 Forty-six states and the District of...
No, I'd call that homeschooling :) Sorry, probably doesn't contribute a lot to the discussion, except to point out that the one-to-one situation is real, not...
As I read your response, the differences between us come down to the question of whether it is possible for the average teacher (with the proper training) to...
No, showing it CAN be done is not enough. Show that it IS being done, with ALL students learning at least as well as they do in homogeneous groups. Show that...
No. Showing that something can be done is not the same as showing that it can be done consistently by the majority of teachers for the majority of the time.�...
... Well as Toby and Alan S. point out, your phrasing moves things along a little too fast. Nevertheless, my answer would be a bit more accommodating. If a...
Fields haven't been chosen yet, but when I checked the website (http://www.frostedflakes.com/#/plant-a-seed/) and sorted the semifinalists by number of votes,...
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Draft benchmarks for English 4-12 and Math K-12 are available at http://achieve.org/K-12Benchmarks Achieve is the umbrella organization for the governors' ...
Just what range of difference in preparedness are you talking about? There is also a difference in the rate at which students can assimilate information. How...
Here is my real world experience with "detracking" in MCPS 1) "Detracked" elementary classroom with a newly-minted 23-year-old teacher who bombed out and was...
I wonder if they seriously considered just adopting Singapore math for Algebra. It addresses many of their concerns with the mile-wide inch-deep NCTM-approved...
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