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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know what "Math [X] with acceleration" is supposed to [i]do[/i] in the new curricular paradigm?

[b]How do they accelerate without leaving the other groupings behind?  If they do leave some behind, [/b]wouldn't that be the same exlcusionary tracking they are characterizing as endemic to Compacted Math?  Aren't AMP6+/7+ and PreAlgebra also, then, subject to the definition of exclusionary tracking?  What is the point of "with acceleration" if at the beginning of the next year they have to start over with standards they learned in the previous year's acceleration?

Maybe they go through modules more quickly (and this is the acceleration) to facilitate on-grade-level enrichment activities in the extra time, only covering standards for the one grade?[/quote]

You have it wrong. You assume they will accelerate in a class of multi levels and leave some people behind. They will not. They will offer on-grade curriculum, leaving out the acceleration. Then at the end of the year when the kids in the accelerated class aren't making progress, they will blame the kids and put them in a lower group -- after all, they didn't benefit from the acceleration. [/quote]

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