Originally Posted by ohmathmom
Cricket3 is right. Here's a piece by Hung-Hsi Wu on acceleration
To Accelerate, or Not
Unfortunately, Common Core will make acceleration even more difficult for many students.

Well, that was depressing. I would expect better logic than this from a mathematician :

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We feel strongly that students learning the basic topics in K-12 mathematics thoroughly and well is more important than how fast they can learn.

Talk about two different things! There doesn't seem to be any room for learning faster and learning thoroughly.