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Show 10 —_Standard-Examiner, Sunday, May 24, 1992, and Lakeside Review, Tuesday, May 26, 1992 7 Graduation WEBER HIGH From previous page Shawn Byran Davis Todd L. Davis Wade M. Davis Amy Lynn Dawson Angela Dawson Bryan De Mond Sherry Deamer Kami Dean Tricia Dorine Dearden Eric DeCaria John Vincent Defina Amber Degiorgio Lisa Degiorgio Florence B. DeJesus Erin Deppe Kimberly Dawn Dethrow Nicole Dickemore Brooke Dipoma vatthew John Dixon Christopher B. Greenwood Stacee Caroline Greenwood Holly Ann Grieve Kevin Grove Nancy Ann Sweet Nalani Guffey Jason R. Tams Brooke Tanner Brandon V.Taylor Dustin Taylor Genevieve M. Taylor Heidi Jo Taylor Jacob H. Taylor Jamie Lyn Taylor Jason Taylor Kerrie Taylor Tina Wendy Taylor Wayne Taylor Kimberly Teeples Jonathan Garth Tesch Natalie Ann Thomas Stephanie Marie Thomas Shane Walter Thompson Brett Alan Hadley Sandee Hadley Trent Hadley R. Matthew Hales Emilee Hall Blake Halliday June Hamada Clint Hammer Amie Hancock Angela Hancock Dawn L. Hancock Eric P. Hancock David William Hansen Debra R. Hansen Justin Wade Hansen Karina Marie Thorpe Kimberly Anne Dobbin Mary Chantelle Hansen Patrick T. Dougher ori Lee Douglas Scott Doutre Shane N. Doxey Matthew Draper Nathan D. Hansen Paul Marvin Hansen Michael Chad Harbertson Kevin S. Harper Ken Harris Lisa Lyn Harris Pamela L. Harris Devin Andrew Drebenstedt Jason Duersch Jill Durrant Angela F. Harrison ‘D' Ryan Harrop Gwendolynn Ann Hartman Mitchell D. Eckersley Kristy Kay Edwards Joseph Wesley Eggleston Brady Lynn Ellis Ryan Theodore Elmer Stacey Engberson Brian England Jared LaVell England Joshua England Matthew England James A. Engstrom Troy Paul Eppich Troy Mason Ercanbrack Justin Allan Erickson Mac T. Erickson Summer E. Erickson Cindy Essley Natalie Ewell Vicky Ezquerro Angela Marie Farr Joshua Felix Justin G. Ferrin Brandon Fife Brenda Fisher Rika Fleming Amy Flinders Terra Flinders Brett H. 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Wilson Jeremy Paul Wimmer Rex Wimmer Nicole Winward Torrey Jason Wirick Jeanne Lea Woirhaye Holly Marie Wood Connie Stanford Carissa Jo Workman Elizabeth Ann Staples Lindi Sue Stephenson Brittany Steuer Barbara Wyatt ennifer Frances Stokes Cody Danny Wright CaS : , Ryan Hobbs Stokes Jason Yarbrough Nanette Roylance Story Dustin Stott Dawn Summers Amber Lynne Swan Benjamin Yazzie Rachel Young Dennis Jody Zampedri Travis H. Zaremba 1 Some seek end to slow-lane, fast-lane classes y ALETA WATSON ar Successes are further arguments for elimination of tracking Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. — It begins in early grades. when teachers divide their students into the blueirds and the robins — the bright Knight-Ridder Newspape SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anyone seeking an argument for eliminating tracking need look nofurther than Greg Washington. The 13-year-old basketball player was upset last September when told he would be taking algebra along with all other eighth-graders at San Jose’s Burnett Middle School. He'd always been in the slow classes in San Bernardino schools, and his grades always hovered around the “D”level. is and the slow learners. From then on, researchers contend, too many students are locked into academic tracks that dictate study through high what they school. Poor and minority kids are likely to be stuck in the slow destined for dead-end jobs, their more affluent school- ites in the fast lané prepare for Now, a movement Is growing ross the country to reverse the iry-old practice by creating s that will challenge students Nil ess yns presented in a way ryone learns. Most everyone loves the theory tice, however, changing the ols work is proving con- jual as educators struggle to the competing demands of opportunity and academic plistic,” said Lisa Vieler, vice president of the East Side Education Association and an English teacher at Independence High School. She argues that teachers need plenty of time, training and smaller classes to pull it off. excellence on tight budgets. In Fremont Union High School District in Fremont, Calif., parents exploded this spring when they | red of district plans to put rly all freshmen into the same sh and science classes and to e accelerated algebra and classes. Parents comi that the brightest students ild d be | ed in the new classes cheated of the high-level But school administrators point to state guidelines requiring them to challenge ail kids. And they argue that they havean obligation to provide a better education for the youngsters who have been locked out of the interesting and demanding classes for so long irses they need to compete for Rafael Renteria, principal of East Side’s Silver Creek High School the best colleges. In San J Calif.’s East Side Union High School District, many teachers fear the administration ts moving too rapidly toward eliminating all remedial and most honrs classes in the name of equal ation Most remedial English irses Ww D e eliminated or reded next ar he n is a little too sim- “We have spent so much time training kids to be cherry pickers to be asse mbly-line workers,” said “We don’t have cherry orchards anymore. Wedon't havefactories he said. “Weneed to strive to pre- pare our kids to bethinkers, to be cooperative workers, achievers.” to be high Researcher Jeannie Oakes. associate professor of education at “I could do all the work but I just didn’t want to doit anyway. It was boring,” Greg said, noting that he was still doing first-grade arithmetic in sixth and seventh grades. “I'd known it all since third grade.” At Burnett, though, no one takes remedial classes. The school has put everyone into accelerated courses in an effort to reverse the downward slide of so manyofits students, 60 percent of whom are UCLA, also argues that schools must reverse decades of classroom segregation. Her studies of math and science classes show most Hispanic and black students assigned to consumer math and general-science classes while large proportions of Asian and Anglo students take algebra and biology Oakes, who is leading the push to eliminate tracking, points out that differences in academic skills among children are often very small in the primary grades. But the gaps grow every year, he says, because the slower classes consistently receive less interesting and challenging material. The gap can be bridged, Oakes argues, if schools change the way they teach and provide more sup- port for students who have trouble Keeping up That's the secret of the new classes in Fremont Union schools in Sunnyvale, Cupertino and West San Jose and the movement toward a basic curriculumof college preparatory classes at Silver Creek Hispanic. There’s also a different approach to instruction. Teachers focus problems on real-life situations rather than work-sheet questions; they group kids together to work cooperatively on projects; and they use materials such as blocks and beans to work out math and science problems before discussing more abstract con- cepts. The key to making an untrack- High School in East San Jose. At Fremont High Schoo! in Sunnyvale — the most ethnically diverse school in the district and the first to eliminate all remedial English classes — teacher Leeann Harmon plays a recording of “Romeo and Juliet” to her freshman students, then has themread it aloud. Theyprepare for the play by dividing into groups and analyzing other star-crossed relationships. “I’ve found personallyas long as you keep students active and keep their interests high, you accomplish the same thing” in the mixed group as with a traditional college prep class, Harmon said. Harmon’s students get help from the tutorial classes Fremont offers slower readers. In Alison Broaddus’ tutorial class, students give a dramatic reading of “West Side Story” to help them understand the themes underlying Shakespeare's work. “They help you understand everything better,” said Maria Mendoza, 15, who is in both classes. ed program work is not just mixing the kids together, pointed out Michael O'Kane, Burnett’s principal. “We have to teach differently.” Greg was hooked. Nowhe’s on the honor roll and his math teacher wants him to go straight into geometry next year in high school. “I just knowI’m going to gradu- ate,” he said, “and get a scholarship for basketball.” Tutoring is more informal at Silver Creek High School. Students taking the new college prep math class are free to come to Room LI two mornings and four afternoons a week for help with the course, which blends algebra, geometry and trigonometry in complicated problems that students work together to solve. One recent afternoon, Brenda Reyes, 15, was puzzling over her homework in the fourth row. She’s happyto be doing well in math after years of barely passing basic arithmetic. “Before it was boring, just copying out of books,” Brenda said. “This year is interesting.” Even students who have always excelled in math find something to think about. In one corner, Anthony Lee, 15, and his two friends debated the problem of the week: how to slice a pie to get the most pieces “Algebra is more easy to figure out,” Anthonysaid. “There’s equa- tions for everything. This is more word problems.” That’s just what Renteria, the Silver Creek principal, likes to hear. He remembers the students he encountered as a counselor who were bright and capable but bored with dull and repetitive remedial classes that were never going to get them anywhere. Most dropped out. “When you (eliminate tracking), a lot of people imagine pulling kids down,” Renteria said. “The object of de-tracking is to push a lot of kids up to a higher levei.” That argument plays well in schools like Fremont and Silver Creek, where one in four students is poor enough to be in the freelunch program. And few would quarrel with it in more affluent areas. But researcher James A. Kulik, research scientist and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, doubts that most schools can really pull it off. “If you insist all kids have a common curriculum,” Kulik said, “you will be handicapping the brightest kids as well the low-aptitude kids.” Fremont Union parents also worry that overcrowded classes and undertrained teachers will undermine the philosophy of the new classes. And they aren’t entirely satisfied by assurances that they can request their freshman children be placed in upper-grade classes. “There’s a great concern about the ability of teachers ... to be able to handle the great spectrum of students who will be coming into those classes,” said Susan Jessie, mother of a Homestead High School student. Many teachers share those fears “I have top and bottom kids right now, a great disparity in reading levels,” said Debra Dew, who teaches the new freshman English class at Fremont High. “This is my great concern.” \ |