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Atlanta Forward: Education

By Maureen Downey
April 13, 2014

One of the most controversial practices in education is tracking, the sorting and grouping students into classes on the basis of abilities.

Today, a leading advocate of detracking discusses her new book with me and her fears school choice policies will breathe new life into the sorting and segregating of students.

In a guest column, a college professor warns against the use of student test scores and drive-by classroom observations to assess teachers.

And readers share their views on the latest in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating case and its chief defendant, former Superintendent Beverly Hall.

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Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.

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