Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

On Jul 21, 10:35=A0am, "Stephanie" <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> How do you envision multi-age schooling? I have always thought that
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> people by the number of years that have been alive made no sense. But
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> method is entrenched. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Multi-age school is already done to some extent in high school and
especially college. Eligibility for a course is typically determined
by a passing grade in a prerequisite course or by testing in. College
math professors judge students' readiness for calculus based on their
knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, not their age.

In the U.S., elementary school kids often have the same teacher for
all subjects, which makes it seem more disruptive for a 3rd grader to
take 4th grade math class -- he has to go to a different room.

If math cl***** were given descriptive names in the lower grades as
well as the upper ones, for example "fractions and decimals" rather
than "4th grade made", just as one takes "trigonometry" rather than
11th grade math, that would be a good start. Some parents would
rightly ask 'why is my kid in "fractions and decimals"' when he has
already mastered them?'.