Carol Corbett Burris
Autor von Detracking for Excellence and Equity
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Carol Corbett Burris is principal of South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District of New York. In 2013 she was named New York State High School Principal of the Year. She is a frequent guest blogger on the Washington Post's Answersheet and is coauthor of Detracking for Excellence mehr anzeigen and Equity and Opening the Common Core: How to Bring All Students to College and Career Readiness. She lives in East Rockaway, New York. weniger anzeigen
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- Teachers College, Columbia University (Ed.D)
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- Principal (South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District in New York) [2000-present]
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- Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State (2010)
SAANYS New York State High School Principal of the Year (2013) - Kurzbiographie
- Articles that she has authored or co-authored have appeared in Educational Leadership,Kappan, American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Theory into Practice, School Administrator, American School Board Journal and Education Week. She regularly expresses her concerns about the misuse and unintended consequences of high-stakes testing on the Washington Post, The Answer Sheet blog.
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In the first four chapters, she explains the history of how tracking was created and what tracking is in a school setting. Tracking began after schools were forced by the courts to integrate their student populations. Tracking is basically having multiple levels of the same class where students are grouped based on their abilities. So, for example, all of the smart students are put in the same class, the average kids are grouped together and all of the lowest performing students are together. In most cases, this system of grouping by ability has lead to a different form of segregation. Burris demonstrates through her research that while students of different races are attending the same school, they are not receiving the same education. In most schools that use a tracking system, white students tend to take or be placed in the more challenging courses, while the minority students are placed in the less challenging courses. This problem occurs across the United States, not just in a specific region.
Burris continues by citing examples of successful and unsuccessful schools as they have or have not abandoned the practice of tracking students. One of the big obstacles that schools face when attempting to eliminate tracking is that, many white middle class or upper class parents believe that having lower tracked students in the same class as their higher tracked student, will be detrimental to their own students’ education. Research has shown that this belief can not be supported by any credible evidence. It actually shows the complete opposite. Most students perform better when their classes have mixed ability groups.
The tracking model is still used in many public schools. It is a current and continuous problem that will need to be addressed sooner rather than later. No matter what happens in the future, those involved in public education policy creation must remember that the students, regardless of their race or abilities, are the most important piece in this struggle for equality in education.… (mehr)