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Overall, collaborative learning / group work can be [i]more[/i] engaging.

Are there bad group work experiences? Sure. There are also bad direct instruction experiences. Rather than just avoid all group work, find ways to make it more productive and effective. There are tons of resources available.

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They're not just describing collaborative learning.  They're suggesting [b]making kids responsible for other kids' comprehension[/b] of the materials, to the point that the kids who fully understand the math will get [b]lower grades if one of the members does poorly on a test or can't answer a question from the teacher[/b].  If trained teachers have failed to get a kid to understand the materials, why would they expect untrained peers to do better?  Also, how would it not be utterly discouraging for your kid to have mastered the material him/herself, be working hard to help peers, and then get a bad grade because the peer is not trying or failing to understand the material?[/quote]

I haven't heard any of that. Citation? 
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Not the VDOE thing.  It's in the Railside study, which promotes a lot of group work as the answer for heterogeneous classrooms.  Read the 5 posts prior to yours in this thread.[/quote]

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