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[b]You misrepresent the research.[/b] And your link is to a paper from 1987, which is now over thirty years old. An honest assessment of the research is that it shows that non-tracked programs hurt the lowest and highest performing students. This is not a surprise to anyone who has attended a school or taught at one.:) 
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Actually, I don't.  And as I noted in my later post, I'm not convinced that honors for all is a good approach.  What I did say, and the research shows, and you haven't responded to, is that tracking EVERY TIME IT'S BEEN STUDIED has been shown to mis-assign students (putting lower ability students in higher track classes and vice versa) in ways that mean wealthy, whiter kids end up higher tier classes much more often than their academic attainment alone would dictate.  You didn't respond to my actual point at all.  And I'm in no way misrepresenting the research, you're just responding to points that I didn't make with long excerpts from a tangentially related study. [/quote]

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