Missed this last night.
Common confusion between ability setting and streaming. As you say, CWC, streaming assumes all children are good (or bad) across all subjects. Setting allows schools to put children in different ability classes for different subjects. Importantly, it allows movement between sets throughout their school career. Streaming is very rarely used in schools for these reasons. So to answer OG's question, I do not believe in streaming, but have no real issue with setting. Interestingly, there is as much research suggesting mixed ability teaching is as successful as setting... Prof John Hattie's work for instance.
As for Grammar Schools, there is no evidence they are more effective than comprehensives, but loads of evidence that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are excluded from accessing them. Dr Becky Allen (IOE) has written widely on the subject.
Sorry to be so idiotic...
Posted By: avenging canary on October 27th 2016 at 08:42:45
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- NBTTND: FAO Old Git ref your grammer skool post (NCFC) - CWC, Oct 27, 02:49:03
- Grammar Schools simply don't work (NCFC) - CB41, Oct 27, 09:46:13
- TBH my post was more about Gove selling out to get a new job. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 27, 08:49:36
- Missed this last night. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 27, 08:42:45
- There's also a moral question, in my view. (NCFC) - APB, Oct 27, 08:49:41
- Particularly as children from a wealthier background are more likely to pass (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 27, 09:07:19
- Yup. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 27, 09:12:44
- Particularly as children from a wealthier background are more likely to pass (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Oct 27, 09:07:19
- There's also a moral question, in my view. (NCFC) - APB, Oct 27, 08:49:41
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