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Originally Posted by edslunch
I suppose it’s too early to see this impact test scores (as a trend), but do you expect it to?
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I don’t know. But I do think when educational design choices are centered around your strongest students, it becomes a “rich get richer” situation. I would venture to guess you’ll see stronger results from students who are already doing well because they have access to resources to support them, whereas your students on the fringe, have exceptional learning needs, or have unstable home situations will do worse. Those students are also the ones that tend to lack resiliency and lose confidence quickly, so when the encounter concepts that don’t understand they tend to shut down quicker. A difficult curriculum might do that.
Not saying strong students don’t deserve enrichment, just think that those can be done in the classroom outside of blanket curriculum policies, we already have many programs for those students such as GATE, AP, and IB.