I'm starting to narrow down my research focus. Although I've had experience teaching students from the age of 8 to 80, I've decided that middle school is my favorite. Middle School is the place where serious tracking (note: not ability grouping) begins. It is where students begin to recognize their labels, and is the time when students begin their self-fulfilling prophecies. Much of the research that I have found so far is in conflict. This proves that the research has not yet been done in a satisfactory scientific manner. I am not interested in doing research to simply earn a degree. I'm looking to prove something. I'm looking for an outcome that can help me to convince schools to organize themselves in the most beneficial way for students. After all, that's why we're working in education, right? In the immortal words of Scooby Doo (actually, it's every villian in the Scooby Doo cartoons), "If it weren't for those dang-blasted kids!" Well, for me, those dang-blasted kids are why I'm interested in this research.
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