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datadrivenangel 4 hours ago

Just gotta do the Mississippi thing and hold kids back unless they meet standards. Don't leave them behind by pretending to leave no one behind.

clutter55561 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

School was like that back in Brazil in the 80s. Don’t get the grade, try again. And again. And again. Until you do. That is the real “not left behind”.

zozbot234 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If kids are held back when they fail standards, shouldn't they also be allowed to race ahead when they exceed them?

bcrosby95 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Off the top of my head I don't have problem with this, but the topic is about declining scores so I'm not sure how relevant this is.

datadrivenangel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. That's the whole idea of adaptive/personalized learning.

There are some interesting ethical questions about disparity of outcomes, but we should aim to have a system that educates each individual as best we can (without leaving kids behind). The current system of bludgeoning every individual student to be the same is not working well.

nsxwolf 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Always used to be the case, is that no longer an option?

rahimnathwani 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not an option in San Francisco.

Back in 2022 I spoke with the principal of a nearby government-run school. She told me:

- under no circumstances would a kindergarten teacher teach any first grade content, and

- grade skip is so rare that she'd seen it only once in her entire career

datadrivenangel 3 hours ago | parent [-]

teachers not being able to teach 'higher level' content seems like a huge issue.

MagicMoonlight 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, because you’ll end up really dysfunctional if you’re a child in a class with 18 year olds.

eigencoder 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Absolutely

ihsw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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