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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biologist here.

It’s widely agreed in the hard sciences that education and nutrition “research” is crap.

As with PP economist, I’m not saying we shouldn’t think about best practices, just let’s not put blind faith in education “research” and demand “data” to make a decision.

I’d be willing to read the tiered study you’re talking about - want to link it?  (Is it truly _experimental_ as you say?)[/quote]

Chicago study and others are linked in an earlier post.[/quote]

Found the post.  The Chicago study is observational.  The one experimental study I saw was done in Kenya.  It is unclear if that’s very generalizable to DC area.  The Figlio study appears to be high-quality.

That said, the Brookings report is a fair minded and cautious review of the available evidence, in which many different studies confirm what is common sense to any teacher or parent: tracking helps the most advanced and least advanced kids.

The real misfiring of research on the tracking issue came 3-4 decades ago when the education establishment decided, based on “research”, that tracking should be eliminated.  My aunt was a public school teacher at the time.  She made a stink then, and she was right.  It just took a few decades for the educational establishment to catch up to what all good teachers knew.

Moral: seek out good teachers and parents and listen to them; consider research but do not follow education research blindly.

And the relevant point for the thread topic: Wilson’s “Honors for No One” approach is a terrible idea, and is likely to hurt low-achievement students while driving away high-achievement students, and corroding the quality of the school and its family support.[/quote]

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