From ‘No Child Left Behind’ to ‘No Child Gets Ahead’
1st May 2021
Position papers by a national association for math educators that were shared by the education department argue “tracking” students — sorting advanced ones into separate classes — results in the over-representation of white and wealthy students.
“Those that have been privileged by the current system must be willing to give up that privilege for more equitable schooling,” one of the papers reads.
Equality of result never happens from getting poor performers to perform better — if they could perform better, they wouldn’t be poor performers — but invariably by hindering excellent performers from performing as well as they could.