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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would argue that DCPS' problem with middle school isn't the number of seats, it's that with a few exceptions their schools just aren't very attractive. If they figured out a way to make them attractive those seats would fill. [/quote]

They know. But it is hard. The answer is to grow middle and upper class buy in. Most of the time DCPS is just pissing those people off. [/quote]

It's getting better people on Capitol Hill have finally realized [b]Stuart Hobson and Jefferson actually work with honors/tracking [/b]although many folks still prefer Latin and Basis

The biggest problem now is EOTP.  There are still no good option for folks.  The city needs to replicate the honors/tracking models in at least two of the middle schools in the area to keep higher income folks of all races in DCPS.

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So tired of reading the casual r****m of pro-tracking comments. Tracking is ineffective at making higher students do better and explicitly hurts lower students. It’s junk science perspectives like this so commonly held by the general public that drive educators nuts. [/quote]

Nearly every word of these three sentences is false.  Let me take it apart:
"casual r***m":  Here's the poster showing their hand.  Their argument is bad-faith from the start; all about division rather than being constructive.
"tracking ... higher students do better": False.  False from everyone's personal experience.  False on the data.  Completely false.
"explicitly" ... an enhancer word, out of place, with no meaning
"hurts ... lower students" ... Only the worst kind of crappy data supports this.  
"Junk...": Made up.  False.  Has been debunked in several threads
"commonly held": because it's true.  In the past 40 years education "research" fads have gone from tracking...to homogenity.  To tracking.  Back to homogeneity.

Tracking is essential to keep the best students.  My kids very well might not need it.  But taking away tracking means lopping out the best kids from any school.  By definition.  That's the way to kill a good school.

DCPS needs far more tracking.[/quote]

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