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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does their "enrichment program" differ from tracking or ability grouping???[/quote]

This is the thing about Enrichment -- it is emphatically [i]not[/i] tracking or ability grouping. In fact, based on what I've seen Enrichment is primarily defined by what it isn't: it isn't tracking. This is why it seems that no one can give a coherent answer about Enrichment: other than the fact it isn't tracking, no one knows what it is.

Tracking has a sullied history in DC. After Brown vs. Board of Education, integration was ordered in DC, but white Washington fought it with every with every bureaucratic trick they could muster. One of those tricks was to create tracking, and to put the white kids and black kids into separate tracks. A series of lawsuits in the 60's and 70's found that tracking illegal. You probably could come up with a tracking plan that passes court muster, but the legacy of that time is so painful that tracking remains a political non-starter in DC.

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