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Tracking in the News


Recently, Education Week published a provocative piece by James R. Delisle in January titled Differentiation Doesn't Work,”  which sparked an avalanche of comments and a strong retort by one of our SIG’s own members Carol Ann Tomlinson titled Differentiation Does, in Fact, Work.”  


Welner, K. (2013, June 10). The bottom line on student tracking. The Answer Sheet Blog, by Valerie Strauss. The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/
SIG member and well-known policy scholar Kevin Welner responds to three misinformed claims made by a recent New York Times article about the rise of ability grouping. Also available as a pdf.