Extra Post Regarding Tracking

I meant to post something about this a while ago, but I never really had to the chance to do so...I think that tracking is not the best way to test students' abilities, but for the people who think that is disappearing are definitely wrong. This article shows how even as short as a decade ago tracking was endemic and remains so to this day. I just thought it would an interesting follow-up to our discussion regarding Jeannie Oakes's piece.

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/papers/tracking.html