"We talk about racial profiling by the cops," said Anthony Stevenson, a social studies teacher and an African American. "We have to talk about the same thing in education." [...] "If we are routinely moving students from Philadelphia into modified classes, regardless of achievement level, we must change that," he said. "If Philadelphia is another word for black, we must change that." ... In many districts, low expectations have been virtually institutionalized in a sorting system called "tracking." Common in American education for decades, it is increasingly being singled out as a prime suspect in the continuance of the achievement gap. ... Tracking, they contend, too easily becomes a mechanism by which minorities are funneled into low-level courses, with the least capable teachers and boring coursework.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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