Detracking: Why Schools Should Detrack and How to Teach to a Mixed-ability Classroom

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to help educate teachers understand the levels of ignorance that are shared regarding the tradition of tracking students. The two goals are: 1) to provide information about the history of tracking, reasons to detrack, and restructuring ideas for schools who wish to reform; 2) to give teachers some specific instructional strategies for use in a mixed ability classroom.