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[quote=Anonymous]Here is the problem as I see it.  Tracking is often a result of parental ambitions and or knowledge rather than the true skill set of the kids.  So poorer kids who with some extra enrichment would really shine rarely get the chance and middle and upper class duds often are pushed in by an insistent parent and struggle sullen on at the bottom of the class.  Montgomery county especially struggles with this problem.  The kids in the middle often are the ones that are shafted because not much effort is made in that area.

Having grown up in a poor SES area with tracking it made a huge difference for me, but I knew a lot of smart kids without the push from home that got a crappy education.   What I saw lacking in my youth were proactive teachers that pushed kids who were on the margin to extend themselves to get to a more rigorous program.  However, by high school if you don't have the motivation you should not be able  to torpedo kids who will work harder opportunities.  Maybe I would even say that should be the case by 7th grade.   The real question in my mind is how kids get started in education.  Currently in DC if you are poor with a few exceptions you will be stuck at the bottom  tracking or differentiation.  You just start out too far behind.  Nothing about our current curriculum or teaching can really pull these kids forward.  Few exceptions seem to be Kipp and maybe a couple other charters.   All the rest of the schools are changing because they are getting middle class kids in, not pulling kids up. [/quote]

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