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Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school? by lallysingh on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:33AM (#13482839)
What's streaming?
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Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school? by T-hawk on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:39AM (#13482904)
Dividing students by ability, into groups such as honors/regular/remedial, with different levels of challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(education)
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Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school? by jonathankoren on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:36AM (#13482879)
Tracking.

You break kids up by test score and then put all the top kids together, all the middle kids together, and all the bottom kids together. My public school experimented with it for one year, but reverted. Rumor was, parents felt like their kids were being written off in the 6th grade.

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