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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Posted
8:11 AM
by Susan Darst Williams
KIDS DON'T LEARN IN ARTIFICIALLY DIVERSE CLASSROOMS
Well, what do you know? A world-class political scientist finally says what we all know -- everybody but the educrats, that is: nobody learns when you group kids too diversely. This fact will never help get the gifted kids into their own classrooms, of course -- but if the educrats grasp that the academically struggling need to be with their peers in order to learn, rather than looking even worse than they are because they're sitting next to a superstar, maybe we can finally get some reality in everything from reading group assignments to the end of forced integration schemes:
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20061008&ID=6085419
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