- This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness. However, the real-world context in which the clinical discussion is framed is one fifth-grade classroom in Trotwood-Madison City Schools outside Dayton. What sounds like a recipe for disaster when you discuss it up in the researchosphere simply is a disaster when it plays out on the ground, with exactly the winners and losers you would expect. (Real Clear Investigations, 2/23/23)
- Meanwhile, officials and elected board members of Toledo City Schools continue to waffle about implementing block scheduling in the district. Here are three things we know from this piece: It’s supposed to be GREAT for students, it failed previously because it cost something like $100 million a year, and it ain’t happening next year for sure. (Toledo Blade, 2/27/23)
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