Still, many teachers and parents wonder how they can de-track their schools without boring the bright kids and overwhelming the slower learners.

As a teacher, he noticed that the slower learners fell further behind their classmates when he taught them all from the same textbook.

And slower learners should have three years instead of two to do their A-levels.

Kathy Stanley has 32 slower learners in her first-grade class.

Miss Sacher's second graders have been designated "slower learners," who may have more problems at home, and can be more unruly.

In matters of the spirit, Mozart was a slower learner.

But one student, Stanley Lewis, said the school can lull bright students into complacency because each class has a mix of both fast and slower learners.

Johnson, an unheralded selection from the University of California, has been a slower learner for the Cavaliers.

This means that, for the first time, the whole SVQ framework has been opened up to slower learners and those without formal qualifications.

And in high school, she said, she tutored slower learners.