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October 27, 2013 at 4:00 AM

Roundtable: Can tracking ever work?

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Joplin Plan shows promise for grouping students

Reading classes that separate students by ability, not grade level, allow for tailored instruction without stigmatizing students, writes Robert Slavin of the Center for Research and Reform in Education.

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Let's challenge all students instead of tracking by ability

Rationing our most demanding curricula is not the way to shrink our country's achievement gap, argues National Education Policy Center Director Kevin Welner.

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Is blended learning the solution?

Drawing on her daughter's own experiences with tracking in Seattle Public Schools, Alison Krupnick of ParentMap writes about how a combination of in-person and online instruction could enable students to rotate more fluidly through different groups.

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• Alliance for Education
• Seattle Education Association
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Community & Parents for Public Schools
• Education Week
• El Centro de la Raza
• The Hechinger Report
• League of Education Voters
• Powerful Schools
• Rainier Scholars
• Road Map Project
• Seattle Community Colleges
• Solutions Journalism
• Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
• Teachers United

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