Teacher-Led Detroit School Innovates With Student Regrouping

Education Week (1/18, Sawchuk) reported, "Detroit's troubled school system remains in emergency management, its enrollment dwindling and its labor-management relations contentious. Yet in spite of those challenges, a school there is making a bid to innovate with many of the formal structures that have long guided not just teachers' roles, but also how students are organized in classes." According Education Week, "At Palmer Park Preparatory Academy, teachers are gradually assuming administrative duties to become the city's first teacher-led school." Also, "a new, pilot schedule for 7th and 8th graders lets teachers regroup the middle school students in different English/language arts and math classes frequently, based on the students' performance and how quickly they are learning new material."