<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">If by 'diversified curriculum' you mean one that addresses the aptitude level of each student and fits them (notice use of plural to avoid he or she - becoming popular) in slots where they can succeed, then that will be fine. A student should have some direction to take as early as 9th grade or maybe even before that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Define the need for the basic classes: those who will be shunted to plumbing or car repair will not be taking algebra, unless elective. Or maybe one class to see how they do, but certainly not as a graduation requirement for most students. Question the need for multiple literature classes (I think more grammar and vocabulary would do average people better than MiddleMarch and Chaucer, much as I love literature).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I would do a bit of research on split classes, or whatever the jargon is for them - tracts, maybe. I would find out if the only reason they are not done is simply the need for more teachers. My high school teacher friend says that people who are trained for the upper and the lower levels are nearly absent. Just putting a very bright student on a computer and telling them to go to an advanced class online is taking them away from teacher/student relationships.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">You might consider looking at research trying to divine what jobs are going to be popular and which are disappearing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Include a lot of testing and counseling. We have to know who and what they are before we can decide what to do with them. Preferably do this around the 7th grade. Aptitude and achievement tests for all. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Include a lot of research on results of various special programs put in experimentally.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I may have more later. But what a great honor! Just who do you know? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1116592261529003091WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Exi friends, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been invited to give Ted talk, and I might take them up on it. I have hung with you for well over 20 years and always read the chatter even if I don’t participate as much as I once did. My ideas and attitudes have been greatly influenced by ExI. Naturally my Ted would be greatly influenced by that association.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I will not speak on my real area of expertise (satellite controls) because that wouldn’t be of general interest to the people who invited me. They want to hear about a more recent interest of mine: education.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So… I might give a talk on the future of education.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please, your perspectives, ideas, suggestions for focus, anything you want to offer. I have time: the outline wouldn’t need to be ready for several weeks and the pitch itself would happen in May. I am thinking of a techno-optimist view of the near term easily-foreseeable future. My notion is to talk about our local public school’s embracing highly diversified curriculum: what if we do and what if we do not?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Help me Exi-wan Kenobi!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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