Friday, September 23, 2005

Authors Challenge Schools to Challenge Students

Authors Challenge Schools to Challenge Students: "wo new books on how to teach students of divergent abilities seem at first to have been written on different planets.

But Deborah L. Ruf's 'Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind' and a new edition of Jeannie Oakes's 'Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality' eventually reveal a similar frustration. Both want children to be given more individual attention and more of an academic challenge than they are getting in most schools."

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