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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So how is rhe FCPS AAP program different from tracking?[/quote]

Because it is ability grouping, not tracking.[/quote]

hairsplitting.  those sound the same to me.  still not convinced.   if aap were ability grouping there are many kids in gen ed who would be in AAP and vice versa. [/quote]

Continuing the Discussion of Ability Grouping

http://tip.duke.edu/node/803

Tracking, Ability Grouping and the Gifted

http://www.giftedpage.org/docs/bulletins/PageBulletinTracking.pdf

NAGC Position Paper: Grouping

http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/Information_and_Resources/Position_Papers/Grouping.pdf

In Search of Reality: Unraveling the Myths about Tracking, Ability Grouping, and the Gifted

http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/0817928723_85.pdf

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Here's a quote from the first article:

Fiedler: With tracking, students are typically assigned full-time to groups according to presumed ability, prior achievement, or teacher observations. Students are often locked into tracks and labeled “low,” “average,” or “high.” Often they cannot move between tracks during a school year or from one school year to another, leading to a castelike system that can cause discrimination against students in the “low” tracks and that can exclude them from learning opportunities.

AAP sounds like tracking to me.[/quote]

Absolutely, positively, 100%.  This describes AAP in a nutshell.[/quote]

Absolutely.  Also from the first article.

[quote]Ability grouping is a method by which teachers group and regroup students according to common needs for intellectual challenge and type of instruction. The grouping can be a self-contained class, a subgroup within a classroom, or a cluster of students that moves between classrooms. Placing students of similar ability together makes sense and allows for the most effective use of educational resources, including the teachers themselves.[/quote]

Absolutely, positively, 100%.  This describes AAP in a nutshell.[/quote]

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