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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NNAT and CogAt supposedly get at a different type/level of thinking than the SOLs. There's a big difference between a high achieving student and a gifted learner. So maybe honors in ES might work. The problem is that it's not good for the lower achieving students to be grouped with only lower achieving students.

Of course theire are children with SN at all levels. What I was saying is that in the education field "tracking" is a bad word. [/quote]

Probably the best system depends on the goal. Is the goal to bring all students up to a certain level, so that mixing lower-achieving and higher-achieving students would be desirable even if the higher-achieving are "held back" while helping to pull the lower-achieving ahead? Or is the goal to provide special enrichment for the very highest achievers and fastest learners so that they may reach their fullest potential and make future contributions in medicine, literature, energy-efficiency, world peace? It seems that our current system (select few in AAP and mixed group in gen ed) is an attempt to strike a balance in an imperfect world. The high achievers in gen ed are there not because they could not do more but because they are needed to help the slower learners not fall farther behind. These gen ed high achievers were not chosen to run ahead the fastest, but they are playing an essential role in leading and teaching others. I am not saying that I advocate this system but see how we have ended up at this point, given a combination of goals and beliefs.[/quote]

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