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- From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Demise of honor programs in public high schools
- Message-ID: <dlhanson.52@nap.amoco.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:35:09 GMT
- References: <Bu9opJ.46G@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Sep9.213509.7219@bostech.com> <BuDDI3.4r0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Sep12.212458.5571@jlc.mv.com>
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- In article <1992Sep12.212458.5571@jlc.mv.com> john@jlc.mv.com (John Leslie) writes:
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- >In article <1992Sep9.213509.7219@bostech.com> (Leon Story) writes:
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- >> If it's so impossible to provide superior education to a class which
- >> contains very bright (and motivated) and very slow kids, then why not
- >> give the supposedly bright ones the assignment of getting the slow
- >> ones up to speed (in motivation, in skills, and in comprehension)?
- >> Surely that's one of the greatest challenges they'll ever face.
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- >In article <BuDDI3.4r0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >> Should a bright student learn a small fraction of what could otherwise
- >> be learned and spend the bulk of the times attempting to teach the slow
- >> ones?
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- > Herman Rubin makes a tacit assumption that the top students will
- >learn most efficiently when they are separated. My experience hints
- >it ain't so... Most people seem to learn best while explaining something
- >to an avid student.
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- I would like some "proof" that holding the brightest children in a class
- so they can teach the others helps the brightest ones achieve more.
- My experience and common sense indicates otherwise. It seems to me that
- taking time away from the studies of the brightest will not help them.
- Holding them back with easier material will not help them to learn more.
- (And don't try the "cooperation" skills argument.)
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- David L. Hanson Home school - it works for us!
- Teacher, Grace Christian Academy (home school)
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- "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget
- God"
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