noun
- the practice or process of eliminating or reducing academic streaming (the division of students into different educational tracks or ability groups)
Usage: education; primarily British and Canadian usage
verb
- to eliminate or reduce streaming in (a school or educational system); to reorganize (students) into mixed-ability classes instead of separate tracks
Usage: education; primarily British and Canadian usage
Examples
- The school board voted to implement destreaming in all middle school mathematics classes.
- Destreaming aims to provide equal educational opportunities for students of all ability levels.
- The district is destreaming its English program to reduce inequality among learners.
- Critics argue that destreaming may slow down advanced students, while supporters say it benefits struggling learners.
- After destreaming, teachers had to develop more differentiated instruction strategies.
- The government's destreaming policy requires schools to mix students of different academic abilities in the same classroom.