Explain how tracking can affect students’ learning and opportunities.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Tracking places students into different courses based on their perceived ability. Typically this occurs today through the institutionalization of honors, college prep, and AP courses. A system of course prerequisites creates a situation where early tracking can have long-term implications for students in their middle and high school years.
2. Research shows that teachers of higher-level track courses expose students to more material, use different teaching techniques, have higher expectations for student performance, and have better-quality materials/experiences to teach students. All of these factors impact students’ opportunities to learn material.
3. Teachers of higher-level courses are typically more advanced and “better” teachers.
4. Students in higher-track classes are likely to have better grades and an “edge” in terms of college admissions when compared to their lower-track peers.
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What will be an ideal response?
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