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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]flexible grouping makes the most sense. All students are given a pre-test and then sorted into classes based on how they tested. This way, if a student is particularly good at fractions, for example, they will be in a more advanced grouping. But, this same child may not grasp geometry as well, and would be more appropriately placed than if the child had been labeled "aap" and accelerated across all topics.[/quote]

Flexible grouping can only work if it is a year commitment. You can’t have kids go in/out of the advanced group in 5th and 6th because they literally take s different SOL. I am all for grouping kids where they are. They should use the end of year data to do this. Between IReady and the SOLS there is definitely enough data to form groups. Maybe kids might start taking it more seriously if they knew it was for class placement. [/quote]

Here you make a flawed assumption. There would be no “advanced” and all kids would take the grade-level SOL. For example, if you have 100 kids and 4 home rooms, they would be split into 4 math classes. This changes based on unit of study. I’m talking about flexible grouping instead of advanced placement for math only.[/quote]

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