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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That's up to the district or the state. The Common Core is simply a list of standards, and states continue to make their own decisions about how to address individual kids who are struggling. Current "best practice" is to use a model called "Response to Intervention", where students move through various levels of intervention. They might start with what are called "Tier 1" interventions, which is when a teacher makes modifications for a specific student. Perhaps their reading group meets an extra time per week, or she gives reteach phonics lessons during centers, or she invites a high school student to come see her at lunch so she can explain a math concept again. If those interventions don't work, then kids are supposed to move to what are called "Tier 2" interventions, which might be a daily small group phonics lesson, or an invitation to an afterschool tutoring program for a high schooler. Tier 3 interventions are generally given in smaller groups and more intensively, and might be a double period of math, or a pull out reading group. Kids who show over time that they are not responsive to intervention. [/quote]

Like teachers have never given extra help to those who need it?  Really?  Gee.  Back when I was in school, teachers would keep kids after school to help them.  I did the same thing when I taught.
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Again, I'm not sure I really understand

The PP asked how schools respond.  I gave an answer with an example of one way that districts respond.  I never said it was new, or that pieces of it or all of it weren't things  that teachers had been doing for years.  I did say that it wasn't related to Common Core, because states have been working on the problem of how to deal with students who don't meet standards for years.  [/quote]

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