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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I am pro-tracking.  I also don’t like that students can enroll in AP or Honors if they just feel like it.   Differentiation is impossible with the class sizes we are dealing with.[/quote]

Oh it’s possible with even larger class sizes as they do in China, Singapore and South Korea. But you don’t have the skills and ability to do that which is a problem. Math teachers in the US suck.[/quote]

Their model is that everyone is in advanced math, and the children who are not ready are expected to attend cram schools or get the tutoring that they need to keep up.  It's not the teacher's responsibility to differentiate downward for the struggling kids.  That model would never fly in US public schools.  [/quote]

+1.  The teachers in East Asia aren't necessarily better.  The entire culture around education is just different.

Like others have said, the East Asian schools teach math at an advanced level and just expect the students to keep up.  There is no differentiation.  Teachers know that parents will move heaven and earth to make sure their kids pass their classes.

The kids that can't keep up just fail.

It's not a model the US can emulate.  The culture is just too different.[/quote]

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