- Academic tracking and ability grouping have served to lock disproportionate number of African American students into dead-end educational agendas.
- Academic tracking and ability grouping devalues and damages the spirits of our African American, Hispanic American, Native Americans and lower SES students and society suffers the overall impact.
- Within school subculture, these practices foster beliefs in contrast with the principle that all children can and will learn. They dampen and eliminate student and teacher expectations. This insidious cycle creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Initial goals of tracking:
- 1) Raising academic achievement beyond what it would be in mixed-ability settings
- 2) Improving students’ self images as learners
- 3) Increasing the effectiveness of teachers.