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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ideological reasons are well intentioned but an utter disaster in practice.  When for example you have a middle school classroom where some of the kids are already capable of reading at a college level, and others can't read at all, there's so much disparity that no teacher can meet any of their needs effectively.  Even with superstar teachers, there will always be students missing out, the classroom will be always dysfunctional and uncohesive as a whole.[/quote]

This is really getting to the issue, differentiation works well within a certain spectrum; however, when you have children that cannot read (for whatever reason) then it clearly will not work because those children cannot access the materials.  The problem is DCPS does not admit that students currently in high and middle school do not have these basic skills, these children need targeted intervention and by that I do not mean try a new thing every week with unqualified (literacy) teachers doing pull-out. DCPS should be able to point to a plan that they have across the school district for students that read/or are not able to read at specific lexile levels. Differentiation is a fantastic tool but you can't teach phonics and decoding at the same time as doing a differentiated close reading activity with a classroom of students from non to on grade level students, while simultaneously creating your own curriculum. That's a whole other problem, lack of curricula at DCPS!!!! Get busy DCPS you have enough people at central office to have created more than your current scope/sequence. [/quote]

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