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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4666041, member: 6696"] Acceleration is the cute in-vogue word for "force kids to do work they're developmentally not ready for, without a tenth of the resources needed to make it happen." When I'm not suspending kids I'm doing a lot of our curriculum re-writing the past few weeks since regular admin are busy with evals, and of course no one wants to pay teachers to do it. Our district wants to go to an accelerated model and we have less than 20% of our students on grade level for math. It's foolishness. In general, I'm in favor of (flexible) tracking for kids starting in middle school. I know that's not in vogue with the research, but at the end of the day, the model of push-in, differentiated-for-everyone instruction where anyone can learn anything at anyntime is not effective. It's stupid. We've pushed small-group pull-outs, and push-in MLL/SPED instruction and we've seen 0 progress from those students all year. [/QUOTE]