Tracking students and sorting them into 'higher'/'lower' tracks is a topic that we have really, really firm feelings about. In this episode Pam and Kim discuss the unintended consequences of tracking students and offer some ideas to consider.
Talking Points
- Who does tracking benefit, who does it hurt?
- Distaste for the vocabulary used to describe tracks of kids
- Everyone can do more real math than fake math
- From our experience as a teacher
- From our experience as a parent
- From a student's perspective
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