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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So currently E3 reduces acceleration in 3/4. Do they just cram more material in 5th grade to prepare for the 6th grade SOL? Also how do they determine who goes to advanced math in 5th since 4th is heterogenous classes? [/quote]

"cramming in" the material is what is happening for my E3 student. I replied earlier on this thread that he received some differentiation during 4th grade E3 math that the teachers call "extension activities" that happen during full-class math time. He also had once a week pull out with the AART that focused on math (at the expense of his level 3 curriculum). He, and many of the kids' whose parents I know well enough to talk about it, barely passed the 4th grade math SOL. Because so many of the 4th grade "advanced math" kids did average on the 4th grade SOL, they just left them all in advanced math for 5th grade and the 5th grade teacher is trying to catch them up to where they need to be for the 6th grade SOL. It's frustrating.

In our case, if our child isn't caught up by the school, we will put him in Math 7 Honors and then Algebra 1 honors in 8th grade and get him tutoring to catch up if he's having trouble. This is supposedly the track that E3 math is accomplishing for more kids, but it doesn't look like it has worked for our school.

One of the really frustrating things is that because E3 is a pilot program I believe we are the only elementary school in our middle school/high school pyramid doing it. So the middle school teachers will likely have little sympathy for the one group of kids who got behind because of E3 math. I'd feel better about it if the whole pyramid was doing it. [/quote]
E3's pilot is now in its third year. Do they just keep a small subset of schools in E3 indefinitely or do they make a decision at some point to either implement it at all elementary schools or end the pilot?[/quote]

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