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Teachers: Don’t Feel Guilty About What You Can’t Do. The System Needs to Change.

Edsurge

What if I could differentiate instruction in more effective ways than providing extra worksheets to advanced students or offering after-school tutoring for those who struggled? Yet I couldn’t help but wonder: what if I could make this kind of creative, contextual learning happen throughout the year? I had other “what if’s” too.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — It was 7:58 a.m.,

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