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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: Excellence vs Equity in the Classroom. Inflammatory Classroom Techniques?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Excellence vs Equity in the Classroom. Inflammatory Classroom Techniques?:

Excellence vs Equity in the Classroom. Inflammatory Classroom Techniques?

"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