Well, it looks like tracking to me. And I’m fine with it. Jonathan Plucker, a Johns Hopkins education professor, sees “a subtle shift” in the last four years from boosting minimum competency to challenging achievers. He advocates placing “high-achieving and high-ability students in advanced classrooms for their strongest subjects, but not for every subject,” writes Goldstein. The groupings should be more flexible than the rigid “tracking” of students in decades past, the advo

Instead of demanding “safe spaces,” young people should be encouraged to seek challenges, writes Andrew Rotherham in U.S. News. He had a “life-changing” Outward Bound experience at the age of 22. Now in his 40s, he went river rafting with Outward Bound in Utah. Once again, he learned to “rig to flip” the boat. The six-person boat team learned to work together to get through the rapids. “When you experience a group of strangers coming together in a short period of time, meetin