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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with detracking is that it often requires additional resources to make it work.  Struggling students need extra supports, and they need to be motivated enough to benefit from it.  Otherwise, it can potentially lead to dragging the entire class down.  It's by no means a no-brainer slam dunk.

Chicago tried detracking in the late 90s/early 2000s, and it led to fewer students matriculating into college.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/devil-is-in-the-details-when-it-comes-to-tracking-detracking/2014/03

"In the wake of that policy change, low-achieving students were more likely to fail 9th grade math and, eventually, less likely to graduate from high school. They were no more likely to attend college. In the meantime, higher-achieving students’ test scores declined, in part, the researchers suggested, because struggling and unsupported lower-achieving peers were slowing down the class. The high achievers were also less likely to go on to take advanced math, which may have helped explain why they were also less likely to attend college. One reason was that schools often lacked the capacity to both offer higher-level courses and also accommodate the curricular changes, which extended well beyond algebra-for-all in that they raised basic graduation requirements in all core subjects, Consortium director and brief co-author Elaine Allensworth said.

'It’s kind of a depressing story,' Allensworth said . 'The whole intention was to get more students able to go to college.'"

You can't just mix a bunch of students together and hope it works.[/quote]

Above is a no brainer.  It’s just common sense that when you have wide discrepancies in academic abilities, there is no way to effectively differentiate within a classroom so the teacher teaches to the middle or lower end depending on how many students in the class are on the lower end.

The higher academic ability group will not meet their full potential. But they are still considered “fine” by equity pushers since they are on grade level although they have the potential to be much more than mediocre.[/quote]

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