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This is interesting, and encouraging. Modeling seems to be such an
Our Modeling Instruction Program has evidence. Two young teachers in our
program taught a highly successful integrated algebra and physics course to
9th grade Hispanic and black students in 2000-01 in an impoverished area of
urban Phoenix. They used Modeling Instruction, the only high school science
program designated exemplary by the U.S. Department of Education, and they
had the kids for 3 hours each day, all year long. Modeling Instruction and
extended daily time were the two most important factors in their success,
the teachers told me.