[YEP-DC] New post on YEP-DC's Recess blog: A Call for More Sophisticated Tracking

Last month, YEP-DC Recess blogger CJ Libassi made a case for student tracking. This week, Jeremy Meredith, a guest blogger and data analyst with DCPS, responds:

"But I say it's time for a new perspective on student tracking. Abysmal postsecondary graduation rates underscore that the status quo K-12 approach to student ability grouping — a veritable hodgepodge of zero-tracking and crude tracking — is not providing proper preparation for our students. Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity research also provides a thorough analysis of the problem around status quo schooling and how, in practice, tracking can take on innovative and beneficial forms. With nuanced student information now available to educators via increasingly robust data systems, it's time to eschew both the binary "yes/no" arguments toward tracking, as well as the practice of tracking based on rudimentary judgments of student ability. Rather, we should reconceive tracking by utilizing manifold streams of student data available — academic, social, and behavioral — to best offer multiple paths of learning for a range of professional pursuits."

This is an excerpt. Read the rest here: http://www.youngedprofessionals.org/1/post/2013/07/a-call-for-more-sophisticated-student-tracking.html

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