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First-year student Gabe Hendershot writes about the risks behind dividing young students into groups based on their academic skill levels.

Pencils Down: Why labeling children as gifted is toxic to the learning environment

By Gabe Hendershot October 19, 2023
How do you teach from a single curriculum while still accommodating all, or at least most, of your students? One way to cope with this problem is to have sections of the school day where students are divided up into different classrooms based on their academic capability.
Eric Cheyfitz, professor of American studies and humane letters at Cornell University, speaks in support of the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israel on Feb. 25 in the Klingenstein Lounge.

Guest speakers debate academic boycott

By Stephen Adams, Assistant Multimedia Editor February 27, 2014
The Israeli education boycott debate at Ithaca College came to a head on Jan. 25 when two groups hosted guest speakers with opposite views only one hour apart and across the hall from each other.
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