Tracking

Education Letter to the Editor High Schools’ Redesign: More Tests and Tracking?
Beware of politicians promoting more testing and tracking of students.
February 1, 2005
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Student Achievement Explainer Tracking
Tracking is a commonly used term for ability grouping, the practice of lumping children together according to their talents in classrooms.
Education Week Staff, September 21, 2004
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Student Achievement Opinion When Excellence And Equity Thrive
To close the achievement gap, writes Carol Corbett Burris, schools should stop dividing students into separate curriculum tracks.
Carol Corbett Burris, January 28, 2004
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Education Tracking Progress
As the chart shows, Pennsylvania took hundreds of schools off its list of schools not making the adequate yearly progress, or AYP, that is called for by federal education law.
October 8, 2003
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College & Workforce Readiness Study Finds Social Barriers To Advanced Classes
Simply opening up access to honors and advanced courses is not enough to encourage substantial numbers of poor or minority students to take them, a study suggests.
Debra Viadero, June 5, 2002
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Student Achievement A Feast of Offerings
When Mary Cavalier glances up at the cafeteria ceiling, she sees subtle confirmation that her school is on the right track.
Ann Bradley, October 4, 2000
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Education Research on Tracking
Here are some of the major studies and books in recent years on tracking
Debra Viadero, October 14, 1998
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School & District Management On the Wrong Track?
Some researchers are daring to suggest that tracking students may not be as bad as everyone thinks.
Debra Viadero, September 23, 1998
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Student Achievement Opinion Detracking Helps At-Risk Students
People often ask me what my secret is behind the high scores of my students. I have one answer--stupidity. When my colleagues and I began our school in a Maryland state prison, Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, all of us were "green" to corrections.
Susan A. Olsen, June 11, 1997
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Education Tracking May Not Be As Common a Practice As Assumed, Study Says
Tracking, the traditional practice of grouping students in classes by ability levels, may not be as commonly practiced in schools as its critics sometimes assume.
Debra Viadero, May 3, 1995
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Student Achievement Opinion Greater Expectations
Among the teachers at my high school, debates on tracking range from messy at best to vituperative at worst. Everybody has an opinion. Citing the "research'' does little to influence teachers who, rightly or wrongly, would rather rely on their own 20 years of classroom experience than on acade
Eva Ostrum, May 1, 1994
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Education Replacing Tracking With Team Teaching
The "old way'' was Cammack with her own classroom, teaching students who had been grouped by ability. The new way is Cammack and another English teacher working together with about 60 students of varying abilities.
May 1, 1990
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