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Just spent $5.00 for an old teachers edition of "We Are Neighbors"
the 2nd grade reader after Dick and Jane The Ginn Basic Reader. I
remember the story about the snowman on the truck.  (c) 1948-1964


Provisions for Individual Differences p. 38


Children differ widely in capacity, achievement, needs, and rate of
development. Any group of six-year olds or ten-year olds differ in
every way they can be measured, and a group of fourteen-year olds
differ even more widely. Because bright children learn faster than
slow children, the variations within a group increase as the children
advance through school. These conditions are normal. 


*** It is not the job of the teacher to reduce differences, to make
all the children alike, or bring them up to a single standard.***


Some differences such as differences in reading interests and in the
specific skills should be cherished and encouraged by a school staff


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I don't think this is consistent with ANY mission statement for
standards based reform, you'd be laughed out of the place if you were
to try to say this today (at least anywhere outside of our loops!)