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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please link to research that shows the scenario you outline above is actually effective at achieving excellence for all.  I know it looks pretty, feels nice and is taught at all the schools of education.  Meanwhile, our scores as a country continue to drop in comparison with the rest of the world.  Show me that this approach both narrows the achievement gap and raises the bar for everyone.   To me, it is almost impossible to implement effectively beyond the early elementary years and wastes a ridiculous amount of time and frustrates students to no end.  Especially when many of them lack the basic social skills to work in groups and lack the self regulation to work.independently.  not to mention the more advanced kids who are bored to tears.[/quote]

This!

Look at international test scores in math and science.  4th grade: U.S. is in 12th place.  By 8th grade, in 28th place.  By 12th grade, in 19th place - but only because all the Asian nations have already tested out!

Whatever the hell they're doing in [b]Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong[/b], that's what we should be doing here.

I suspect that instead of howling over "differentiated models", they're busy pursuing excellence.  It's a good thing China owns so much of our debt, it reduces their incentive to make slaves of our children.

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You realize those countries track students according to ability and track mercilessly starting in elementary school:  Also, very little accommodation for SN.  Everyone is expected to perform or sink.  No chance of going back on a higher track once you've been tracked to vocational and "not college material."  They have no sympathy about minority groups crying "racism" either.  Higher education (college) is not available to everyone as it is in the U.S. Would not work here...[/quote]

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