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- Title
Lake Wobegon Revisited: On Diversity and Education.
- Authors
Biemiller, Andrew
- Abstract
I present the theses that current educational practices underestimate the magnitude of diversity in educational achievement and that disregarding diversity has the effect of widening the range of differences. I suggest that diversity in the rate of growth of capacity to process increasingly complex tasks partly underlies achievement differences. I propose a transactional model of the interaction of capacity differences and curriculum taught resulting in failure to achieve academic skill mastery by unnecessarily large numbers of children. I propose that reducing concern with "grade-level achievement" and increasing concern with academic mastery would have long-term educational benefits for individuals and society.
- Publication
Educational Researcher, 1993, Vol 22, Issue 9, p7
- ISSN
0013-189X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1176762