Another Edutopia Article

I really like the site Edutopia. It has very interesting ideas and thoughts from people all over the education field.
The article I just read was by Dr. Katie Klinger. The Article is called "An Effective Diagnostic Tool, Does AYP Measure Up?" She brings up the topic of AYP and whether or not it is working the way it should to reach all students. The part of the article that I was interested in was near the end when she proposed that teachers be certified more specifically for grade levels. Like K-3, 4-8 and so on. She believes that each level has specific needs, whether it is more literacy based in lower grades or socially and transitionally based in middle school because of the changes from Elementary to Middle school.
I thought this was an interesting idea and one that sound logical to me. I have long believed that schools themselves should be split up K-2 and 3-5 in different buildings or at least following a different schedule. I sat on our district's scheduling committee a few years ago and we learned that there was no good way to make a schedule that is good for all students, K-5. If we could have split them up into lower and upper schools then we could have done some amazing things with the schedules that would have met the needs of the students much better.