Student Tracking Needs to End | Allen Chen | TEDxYouth@Conejo

Tracking is the separation of students by academic ability into high performing, average, and below average "tracks". Students are tracked as early as fourth grade. Allen Chen compares three tracked students and makes the points that the U.S. is evolving, but the education system remains the same and that student tracking needs to end.

Allen Chen plans to go into education reform to craft policies that consider the perspectives of not only theorists, but also students, teachers, and communities. A Westlake High School (Westlake Village, California, U.S.A.) senior and active member of his community, Allen serves as a Westminster Free Clinic student manager, and as a student counselor and basketball coach at the Thousand Oaks Chinese School. With a lifelong interest in music, he plays violin in the Westlake High School and Conejo Valley Youth Orchestras.

[jiimlyy]

Dimension 20 video brings me here, Hogwarts really messed up with the 4 houses

[josephcallahan]

"Have to go overseas to fill those jobs." That's BS! They hire people form overseas because they can pay them less, give them contract labor, and thus not pay benefits. That's according to everyone I know who works in the tech industry. Check that.

[dannycolombo]

In my opinion this tracking system that you have in USA is the main reason why your education produces so many professionals of excellent competence, not like in Italy where we don't have any tracking system, so good students are put in the same group with terrible students, and I can guarantee that it doesn't help the terrible students, they just don't want to study and keep being the same, even if they are in group with geniuses, but instead on the other side, these geniuses and other good students get heavily damaged by those terrible classmates, who slow them down, or worse, they disturb the lesson and push them to the wrong path.. It may seem too severe but trust me it is a very good a idea and a necessary process. Maybe if you don't already, you should give the possibility to students in lower categories to push themselves and improve their scores to then be moved to a high performance group.

[ccsurfing]

If you're interested in learning about ability grouping, ask an actual teacher. Have a genuine conversation from someone that does the job of teaching kids in a public school classroom instead of watching a TED talk conducted by a "Free Clinic student manager".

[BrianPex]

“Smart” is a very subjective term. Be careful how you use it.

[juanseberino]

Doesn’t tracking violate 14th amendment right to equal protection?

[PitaStJames]

Hearing him breath & talking at the same time is agonizing af, he lacks self-awareness & confidence, speaking is NOT a talent. You delivery has to be made clearly.

[joshuachung]

Bruh, can the man speak fluently I mean ur in a ted talk. Awful