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Monday, November 14, 2005
Back on Track
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bouncing off a post in the fitness comments: Tracking was onced denounced as a sorting system that discarded poor and minority students instead of teaching them, leaving the lion’s share of resources for college-bound kids.
Nowadays, many schools, parents and teachers acknowledge the benefits of dividing kids up according to ability. (I often hear the term “ability grouping.”) Teachers tell me it’s different from the tracking of yesteryear because it allows for students to move up into more advanced groups.
Do you see this practice, call it what you will, in your school? Is it good or bad?
Newsroom Shuffle: I enjoyed my tenure as interim education reporter in DeKalb County, but all good things must end. I have returned to our Marietta Street office where I’ll be covering statewide issues and trends, Atlanta Public Schools, the state school board and private schools. Kristina Torres, of Cobb County laptop fiasco fame, is now in DeKalb; Diane Stepp, who formerly split the Fulton district with Mary MacDonald, is now in Cobb. And Paul Donsky, award-winning exposer of E-Rate abuses, has left education coverage for the transit beat.
