My cynical immediate reaction to this snippet (have not yet read the whole article) is that it doesn't seem like any other country has it figured out. Perhaps some advantages to the Western Australia/Singapore and German/Swiss models.
My own cynical reaction is that tracking obviously works with even Finland doing it just not in name - their high schools are more like the German gymnasium or old British public/grammar school system than not.
So why exactly are our brilliant (sic) leaders ignoring this if not to ensure that our progeny will never compete with theirs on an even playing field.
We need to be more outraged about this state of affairs than we actually appear to be.
