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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no internally consistent argument to keep math tracking if you make every kid take AP classes.

I think they should keep leveled coursework but I would expect if they remove it for humanities you can make the exact same case for math. And that they will makes these changes at Deal as well.[/quote]

If you put a kid in a math class that's several years ahead of where they are, they're not going to get anything from it. Similarly if you make a kid repeat material they know very well. In more reading and writing-based courses, there's more ability for kids at different levels to still benefit. You can have a kid reading at a 9th-grade level and a kid reading at a 12th grade level both reading Romeo and Juliet and writing a paper about it, and they're both at least potentially going to get something out of it in a way that's going to be much tougher with that kind of discrepancy in a math class. [/quote]

I'd add that you can go to many (if not most) public colleges and universities in this country and find students at all academic levels taking Freshman English and Intro History classes, which are what these AP classes are supposedly teaching.  And they make it work.[/quote]

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