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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I struggle with the concept of tracking and/or Gifted classes.  One the one hand, I want my advanced child to be challenged. However, studies have shown that tracking only marginally helps the advanced kids but negatively impacts the kids left behind. If my kid is marginally helped in tracking, and only marginally hurt by not tracking- is the better "societal" choice the one that would positively impact the kids that would be left behind by tracking?  Essentially, no tracking is the option that has the most positive net benefit for all kids.

I don't know the right answer. I think, in theory, if everyone plays along, that might be the right choice. But in DC, what is happening, is that by not offering tracking students are leaving the schools altogether.  So no one is benefiting. [/quote

These studies are BS.  Straight up.

Stop believing education “research”.  It’s 98% crap.  Really.  It’s a hard hard hard field to do good research in.
Trust the experience of teachers and parents, most of whom will tell you that tracking helps advanced kids learn faster.  
I mean, really.

Tracking gives opportunity to all kids, as the AA poster above said- the one who was in a GT program through all of high school.
(Now, it’s important to make sure that smart kids of all SES levels and races can enter the tracking.  That’s hard.  But it’s doable.  The answer is not “no tracking”.)[/quote]

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