Education Next

Tracking is out and differentiated instruction is in in school systems across the country. In the Washington Post, Michael Alison Chandler looks at what it means for teachers (preparing three different math lessons and five different reading lessons each day for a class of 19 students) and students in a school in Montgomery County, Md. In the Winter 2011 issue of Ed Next, Mike Petrilli took a close look at a school that has been praised for its success in differentiating instruction.

Students at Locke High School in Los Angeles are doing better than students in nearby schools, but achievement overall remains low, reports Howard Blume in the L.A. Times. In 2008, when Green Dot Public Schools took over Locke, it was the first charter operator to take over a school in L.A. In the Winter 2012 issue of Ed Next, Nathan Glazer reviewed Alexander Russo's book about the takeover.