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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: Re: Magnet schools
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:42:58 GMT
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- In article <00727506934@elgamy.jpunix.com>, elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- |> From article <C0yEJI.L4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin):
- |> > In article <1j5m5vINNpr9@mojo.eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
- |> >>>In article <1993Jan14.150343.21477@wam.umd.edu>, kckbxr@next08pg2.wam.umd.edu (Robin of Locksley) writes:
- |> >
- |> >> With this in mind, my question is: If magnet schools discriminate and/or
- |> >> promote elitism, then don't they (in effect) also contribute directly to
- |> >> the problem of increasing the lower-class community by preventing them
- |> >> access to available educational resources?
- |> >
- |> > To a large extent, this is the case now, because of the insistence of teaching
- |> > to nearly the least capable child in the class. The educational resource being
- |>
- |> Actually, teachers tend to teach to the level of the MOST capable child in
- |> the class. There's plenty of research confirming this, and looking at my
- |> own teaching, I find it to be true. I don't expect my less capable children
- |> to understand everything that my most capable children understand, but for
- |> most subjects that's not a problem. After a good lesson I might ask my more
- |> capable children to write a paragraph describing how the rotation of the
- |> earth causes days and nights, while for my less capable children I might
- |> merely ask them to draw a picture which shows how the Earth moves around
- |> the sun. I.e., they all get the same lesson, but the less capable children
- |> are expected to have only "gotten" the high points while the more capable
- |> kids are expected to have remembered more of the details. (Before Henry
- |> flames me -- the kid who I asked to draw the picture was autistic and
- |> nearly non-verbal, and it was unrealistic to expect him to "get" all the
- |> details).
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- I would like a reference on this research. What you have posted above is
- entirely false with only a relatively small number of exceptions. >90% of a
- teacher's time is wasted for the smarter students.
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
-