She wrote extensively on the subject and advocated mixed ability classes with the same course for all pupils.
However, by this time the tide was turning and many leading educators were questioning the effectiveness of mixed ability teaching.
He suggested that bright students should be pushed as they would be if they attended independent or grammar schools, adding that too many were left to coast in mixed ability classes or entered too early for exams.
Banding involves an admissions test, with results divided into ability bands - the school then accepts a percentage of pupils from each band, resulting in a mixed-ability intake.
Allowing selection within mixed-ability schools is what used to be called a cop-out, and is now known as the third way.
Hamburg, for example, which is governed by an unusual coalition between the CDU and the Greens, plans to extend the number of years children study together in mixed-ability primary schools from four years to six.
Indeed, he has upset many conservatives in Schleswig-Holstein, by opposing their campaign to curb immigration, by backing the retention of mixed-ability secondary schools, and by arguing that drug addicts should be treated as sick people rather than as criminals.
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