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To: Sam who wrote (82672)	9/7/2008 5:57:10 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

Sam - I don't know where I was reading this, but I think it was somewhere on SI. A teacher had a math class where roughly one third of the class was doing very well, one third was just keeping up, and one third was falling behind. He was spending inordinate amounts of time on the slow group, and the fast and medium groups were suffering as a result. I hope I'm remembering this accurately. He decided to give the fast group the assignment of working with the slow group to help teach them. He was then able to spend most of his time with the medium group. What ended up happening is that the slow students got up to speed, the medium group did better because of the increased attention they were getting, and the fast group did even better than they were doing before. Everyone benefited. In my own experience, teaching something is one of the best was to learn it very solidly. - Allen