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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But, what is the effect on the 70% - the students who aren't struggling?  Do they benefit from being around students who are strugglng, or would they be better off where all (or the vast majority) of fellow students are motivated and doing fine/excelling?[/quote]

Actually, this something that data can tell you. I'm not an education policy specialist but in glancing over school level data in DC, it looks like high performing students aren't held back in effective students, even if they're around a majority of struggling students. The reverse however is more true struggling students will do better around a majority of non struggling students. I've looked at these effects for elementary schools before placing my academically high performing child in a group with many who aren't doing as well. I can't speak to whether that some asymmetric finding would hold for middle schools. But if true then concentrating the academically well of kids in high performing schools would do the not so well off more harm than the well offs derive benefits from it.[/quote]
Then it appears there is a systematic separation between the parents of high performing kids with everyone else.[/quote]

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