Opinion | 'Rather than pushing all students to perform at a higher level, honors for all classes merely label standard content 'honors'.'
In this 2013 file photo, students hug as they graduate from a Denver-metro area high school.To address racial and economic disparities, George Washington High School has mandated “honors for all” courses. This movement across Denver Public Schools to end differentiated classes will harm students.
Similarly, according to a 2013 article in Education Week summarizing prior research, students grouped by ability achieve an additional semester’s worth of growth in reading. In a time when disparities are being exacerbated by a pandemic, isn’t this a critical benefit? Even at the graduate school level, students benefit from class groupings that take into account the variability in their prior knowledge, as shown in a 2008 Journal of Pharmaceutical Education study.
Rather than pushing all students to perform at a higher level, honors for all classes merely label standard content “honors”. They are similar in difficulty to traditional courses — only with a different name. This is confirmed by one student who tells me that there “isn’t really a difference in how hard my honors for all classes and my regular classes are”.
Administrators are under intense pressure to narrow academic disparities but lack the necessary support and funding. This illuminates another virtue of ability-grouping: it raises student performance without requiring more funding than combined classes. Next, achievement should be measured whenever changes are implemented. Right now, that data is not being tracked or shared. Measures of success can include test scores, student and teacher feedback and other assessments of performance.
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