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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.

[b]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.[/b]  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]

Here's a 2006 paper documenting improvements in lower-SES and minority outcomes on a couple of measures when classes were de-tracked and all students were put into accelerated math classes in one school district in New York (https://cxwork.gseis.ucla.edu/pli/14/mp/js/fieldwo...s-research-article-on-tracking).  These results seems clearly at variance with the larger, longer term Chicago observational study.  The question that's interesting to me is: why?  What's different?  And, which results are more likely to be generalizable to  DC?  I suspect that Chicago is a lot more like DC and that the longer term, larger Chicago study is more representative of what will happen here, but I wonder specifically why the results were different and whether those outcomes persisted in New York.

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