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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We get a lot of happy talk about a big renovation from Brent and Jefferson, but the political organizing needed to lobby for advanced classes doesn't seem to be happening. Why not? No hope without a new mayor or what? [/quote]

You need to know where to look and how to see it happening without making a big fuss about it. No, you will absolutely not see a mayor or chancellor in DC have a press conference and say, "now, we are going to track students accordingly to their ELA and Math proficiency". You won't see that in other cities and states either. Although possibly more likely, I would not expect any highly visible test-in options emerge either, not at the middle school level. There is way too much educational history and baggage connected to that, again, not just in DC. But you will - in fact you DO see, when knowing where and how to look - see school leadership at the elementary and middle school level work to provide advanced offerings. Yes, they run into resource constraints in doing so, and yes they have to be very creative to make it all work. Most importantly, they too will not stand there proclaiming as much in front of a bunch of mics. But they make it happen.

Here is the interesting part: Offering advanced challenges - however creatively that is being put together and sold - can emerge more easily in places where there is a lot of differentiating needed to begin with. Otherwise homogeneous schools have a much harder time with that. At best, they'll agree to let someone skip a grade, in a particular subject maybe, which isn't the best solution for the learner as we all know.[/quote]

It can be done in Massachusetts, but not in DC.  We're too stupid.[/quote]

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