A school committee member in Northampton is taking flak for the way he asked a question about math students of varying levels of understanding being put in the same classroom.
Michael Stein, one 10 members of the city's elected school committee, asked a question about "differentiated instruction" during a committee meeting earlier this month that didn't go down well with the high school principal. Stein referred to students in combined classes as "second-class learners" and "first-class learners."
