Grouping_tracking

Grouping/tracking Tracking Thomas Jefferson once stated, “We are all created equal,” but we are not, we are all unique in different aspects in our lives, one aspect being the ability to learn. In Jeannie Oakes’ Tracking: Can Schools Take a Different Route', she states, “Track level differences get produced as teachers and students interact at school.” The competition many students feel academically is hard and furious. Some students do not have the desire to compete and wish to merely go with the flow at school. This is the reason that tracking comes about in schools. The teachers notice the levels of competition the students feel, and make their decisions of how to teach based on how they respond in class. The ability of a student cannot truly be measured by an educator, but rather by the student himself. In all reality no one knows a person better than that person himself or herself. The student makes the decision about whether he or she wants to challenge him/herself more or less. Granted, as Jeannie Oakes states, “when schools group by ability, teachers are better able to target individual needs and students will learn more,” this may be students, ability, student, schools, one, teachers, learn, tracking, themselves, states, less, learning, school, realize, own, oakes, lower, jeannie, him/herself, higher, group, feel, different, differences, class, better, being, able, try, take, subject, skills, should, set, same