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November 26, 2008
What they talk about when they talk about expectations
Andy Rotherham at Eduwonk highlights two writing assignments, both given to seventh-graders, with widely different levels of difficulty. As Rotherham says, this is what wonks mean when they worry about an “expectations gap.”
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The first seventh-grade assignment:
The second:
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November 27th, 2008 12:25 am
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November 27th, 2008 8:13 am
I attended a good middle school, and I think that the Anne Frank assignment would have been very tough for nearly all of my classmates. Psychological and intellectual changes? Yikes. On the other hand, that other seventh grade assignment is pretty awful too. As much as I’ve had to tailor things to my more struggling students, I’ve never given them anything that low-level. I’ll try to send along some samples to you.
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November 27th, 2008 9:28 am
It’s so much easier in math…
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November 28th, 2008 9:52 pm
The Diary of Anne Frank is a novel?
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