Schools—the very institutions that are supposed to help level the playing field for students with different backgrounds—paradoxically sort students based on those same backgrounds. How does this paradox come to be in the United States?Group of answer choicesStudents naturally group themselves into cliques of students with similar backgrounds.Within a school, students are sorted into different academic tracks.Students with different aptitudes are assigned to different high schools.Students are sorted at graduation based on grades and SAT scores.
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Schools—the very institutions that are supposed to help level the playing field for students with different backgrounds—paradoxically sort students based on those same backgrounds. How does this paradox come to be in the United States?Group of answer choicesStudents naturally group themselves into cliques of students with similar backgrounds.Within a school, students are sorted into different academic tracks.Students with different aptitudes are assigned to different high schools.Students are sorted at graduation based on grades and SAT scores.
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The paradox of schools sorting students based on their backgrounds, despite their role to level the playing field, comes to be in the United States primarily through academic tracking within schools. This means that within a school, students are sorted into different academic tracks. These tracks often correlate with students' socio-economic, racial, or ethnic backgrounds, thereby perpetuating the very disparities that schools are supposed to mitigate. This is not a result of students naturally grouping themselves into cliques of similar backgrounds, nor is it a result of students being assigned to different high schools based on aptitude. It also goes beyond sorting students at graduation based on grades and SAT scores. The sorting happens much earlier and more systematically through academic tracking within schools.
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