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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Magnet schools
- Message-ID: <C1HE65.24@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:54:04 GMT
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- In article <00728017449@elgamy.jpunix.com> elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan23.174258.12271@athena.mit.edu>, by solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky):
- >> In article <00727506934@elgamy.jpunix.com>, elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >> |> 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
-
- >> 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.
-
- ....................
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- >The point being that it is *NOT* necessary to short-change the swifter
- >students in order to meet the needs of the slower students. It's just
- >easier that way, because it makes the classroom look more like what laymen
- >think of as a classroom. Some times, alas, my classroom looks more like a
- >three-ring circus...
-
- The bright students are being thoroughly short-changed. If we had an
- educational system which used a remotely intelligent organization of
- the material to prevent spinning wheels, we could teach all of the
- present material now in K-12 to those able to get a sound high school
- diplomat before the 8th grade, and proceed accordingly. Those who have
- the ability should be encouraged to do "advanced" work, and not to have
- to repeat it when they catch up to that grade.
-
- Even the "normals" are being short-changed. Different children should
- even progress at different speeds in different subjects, and if we
- abandoned the present spiral method of time-wasting and introducing
- confusion, much could be accomplished.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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