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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16:19 again.  As an added benefit, I suspect the students in the advanced category could handle slightly higher student:teacher ratios, which might allow lower student:teacher ratios in the classrooms where students are struggling to reach proficiency.

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Oh honey.  There would not be more advanced students, at least not for a long time.  Instead of three sections of mixed ability, you would end up with one very small advanced class, and one remedial class that needs a low ratio to succeed.  The remaining kids in the middle level would be two many for one class so you would need two, for a total of four instead of three.  That is why it is so expensive.[/quote]

I apologize, because I must not be explaining myself clearly.  Imagine a school with 100 6th graders, currently split randomly into 4 classrooms of 25 students each.  All I'm saying is that the school use some basis (grade? PARCC scores?) to divide those classrooms roughly by ability.  There would still be a spread of abilities in each classroom, but the spread would not be as big as in a random mix.

If you want to throw extra resources at the underperforming students, then split it like this:

Classroom 1: 30 top-performing students
Classroom 2: next 25 students
Classroom 3: next 25 students
Classroom 4: 20 lowest performing students

I apologize for not making it more clear.  I'm definitely not suggesting that the top handful of students would get some private classroom with an extra teacher.[/quote]

Because in order for it to be really gifted, and really effective remedial, you need smaller class sizes than that.  It just isn't the case that 30% are advanced.  And 20 is way too big for real remediation (while managing behavior).  A real split would be more like 17, 22, 22, 22, 17.  [/quote]

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