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[quote=Anonymous]I can't fathom how differentiated education could ever possibly work.  In DC, you will likely have for example 10-year-old 5th graders who range in capabilities from reading at a high school level to kids who can barely read at all.  And in this idea of "differentiation", the teacher is expected to challenge, stimulate and keep ALL the kids going.  The kids reading at a high school level will already be bored out of their skulls, daydreaming, and potentially acting out and getting in trouble, the barely literate ones will be struggling to keep up and likewise will probably be acting out in frustration, and given their need to keep up, the classroom will gravitate to the lowest common denominator, and you then lose the interest and attention of the kids who actually are at a 5th grade level.  I cannot imagine any viable way for any teacher to actually spin all those plates and make it all work.  I see "differentiation" as little more than politics and economics, a way to consolidate and put more on teachers in some idea of saving money, as opposed to actually being a viable educational approach.[/quote]

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