On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation

A public school principal’s account of the courageous leaders who have dismantled the tracking systems in their schools in order to desegregate classrooms

What would happen if a school eliminated the “tracks” that rank students based on their perceived intellectual abilities? Would low-achieving students fall behind and become frustrated? Would their higher-achieving peers suffer from a “watered-down” curriculum? Or is tracking itself the problem? A growing body of research shows that track...