Tom Loveless | March 20, 2013 3:00pm

Is Tracking and Ability Grouping Making a Comeback?

On Monday, we released the annual 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education. The report contains three individual studies: one on the latest in international testing progress, one on tracking and ability grouping, and one on advanced math in eighth grade.

Below is a first look at a video we put together in which I discuss the details of Part II, on the resurgence of ability grouping and tracking.

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The Resurgence of Ability Grouping and Tracking: A Return to Controversial Practices?

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Tom Loveless

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Tom Loveless, a former sixth-grade teacher and Harvard policy professor, is an expert on student achievement, education policy, and reform in K-12 schools.

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