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Our blog article today heralds (haha! “herald!”) from a local news source in Wisconsin.
The articles’ title drew me in because it had the word “Starbuck” in it. Two ideas popped into my head: “Typo!” and “What the heck is Starbucks doing in my “high school tracking” search results?”
Apparently, there’s a middle school named “Starbuck” in […]

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Here, again, we face multiple opinions on tracking, but in a new and improved light: gifted and talented programs. On November 20, 2007, the Board of Education of Bartlesville, Oklahoma discussed just such a plan.
Rusty Barnett championed the program, saying
“If gifted children, like all children, need a classroom experience targeted to their ability level, how […]

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Nashuatelegraph.com asked each a few candidates for a local educational position to answer five questions focusing on issues having to do with school board activity and educational philosophy. Obviously, this is a very pertinent topic for me and my role as a future educator. What concerned me the most regarding tracking was Question 4:
“Leveling, or […]

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An almost-recent study reported by ScienceDaily.com provided a different view into the somewhat-popular tracking system in school. It was different not in that it supported tracking (unlike many of my sources) but that it came from a foreign source: England.
Jo Boaler of Professor of Education at the University of Sussex studied various students in mixed-ability […]

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A recent news release issued by Vanderbilt University suggests that it is possible to predict the career path of an individual as early as the age of 13. Science Daily did a report on this finding, and although it doesn’t directly relate to ability-based tracking in the educational world, there is a very strong link. […]

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On September 12, the Education Week website moderated a live chat with Jay Matthews and Ronald Wolk, who collaborated in writing The Last Word: The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education. The website welcomed members of different parts of the education world to ask questions of Matthews and Wolk.
Tonya Jefferson posed a question about […]

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