It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. ... Most parents, when they say to schools, "Give my kid a quality education," mean, "Do something to him that will get him ahead of all the other kids." ... They mean, make him a winner in a race where most kids lose... ... Wherever such tracks exist, studies show that they correlate almost perfectly with family income, the richest kids in the top tracks, the poorest in the bottom. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "...

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