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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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