But hundreds skipped out, and IPS had to pay the staff for added workdays.An excellent idea that ran straight into the jaws of reality. » Teaching struggling students for an extra 25 days a year was supposed to help them catch up. I think they don't know what they're talking about. Most people think it's discriminatory and complain that their kid didn't get the best teachers. Having been in a single-sex situation as a HS student (2 years), as a college student occasionally (engineering doesn't have that many women - male-only classes happen), and as a teacher, I can say that this is one of those reforms that works if you want to let it. But only 100 students signed up.That's not a condemnation of the project but of the people. » Teaching boys and girls in separate classes is believed to eliminate distractions.
And who thinks that dividing kids into groups based on their math scores on a 2-year old, 7th grade test is brilliant? No one understood that perhaps a strong math student might not be well placed in a strong english class.įortunately, it got dropped not because it was a waste of time but because the scheduling was more difficult and the principal and guidance director who championed it both left.
My old school tried this as well, but since no one actually studied any numbers or moved much beyond anecdotal evidence, it was assumed to be a great success.Ī few of us tried to explain that the theory was unsound from the beginning - saying that 20 kids would travel the whole day in their own cohort was just plain silly. Research now says the approach doesn't work.That research was available at the beginning but was ignored. » Carving out smaller groups of students at each high school was expected to boost test scores. A major district has reversed itself on some reforms because they didn't work.
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