Ed schools entrench anti‑tracking

Updated: 2025.10.06 15D ago 2 sources
The guest argues that schools of education have embedded an equity-first, anti-tracking ideology that keeps students of widely different abilities in the same classes. He says this persists despite public dislike and thin empirical support, and that tracking plus individualized pacing better serves both advanced and struggling students. — If ed-school dogma, not evidence or voter preference, drives classroom grouping policy, reform must target teacher training pipelines and governance rather than only district-level rules.

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Ending New York’s Gifted Programs Would Hurt Students
Wai Wah Chin 2025.10.06 72% relevant
The article frames Mamdani’s phase‑out of G&T and de Blasio‑era lottery/anti‑merit shifts as ideologically driven anti‑tracking that ignores evidence of benefits for advanced and struggling students, echoing the claim that institutional incentives bias policy toward mixed‑ability, anti‑tracking models.
Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
Razib Khan 2025.07.19 100% relevant
Jack Despain Zhou (Center for Educational Progress) claims anti-tracking is unpopular yet dominant in ed schools and calls for tracking and individualized advancement 'as far and as fast as curiosity allows.'
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