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Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions and Attitudes to the Educational Structure of Tracking

  • Teachers in this study were generally supportive of separating grade school students into educational learning tracks.
  • Teachers appear to support a tracking structure based more on the managerial challenges associated with instructing large classes of diverse learners and the accompanying complexities of responding to their different needs.
  • Teachers realize the educational benefits of a more challenging curriculum and classroom to slower learners, but they also realize they may be holding up brighter students in the process.
  • There was a general agreement that tracking creates a positive learning environment for advantaged students only.
  • Nearly all of the teachers in the survey responded that a teacher’s status is not defined according to track assignment.
  • Little support is provided to the perspective that teachers believe that lower track students cannot be taught.
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