February 2012 | Volume 69 | Number 5
For Each to Excel
Pages 41-45
Clustered for Success
Dina Brulles and Susan Winebrenner
Cluster grouping enables gifted students, as well as all the other students, to make meaningful progress.
The district was losing students, and there was no mystery about where they were going. Their loss coincided with a marked increase in the number of local charter schools. And who was leaving? Mostly the highest-ability students.
From 2005 to 2010, the Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona, saw its enrollment decline by approximately 5 percent. At the same time, the number of local charter schools increased. This situation isn't unique to Paradise Valley; it's happening across the United States.
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