Keeping Track How Schools Structure Inequality

Name: Keeping Track How Schools Structure Inequality
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ISBN: 9780300108309

ISBN-10: 0300108303

ISBN-13: 9780300108309

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Jeannie Oakes

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Selected by the American School Board Journal as a “Must Read” book when it was first published and named one of 60 “Books of the Century” by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how tracking—the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability—reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition, Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and a new final chapter in which she discusses the “tracking wars” of the last twenty years, wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. From reviews of the first…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.81" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jeannie Oakes is Director of Educational Opportunity and Scholarship at the Ford Foundation, following a 20-year career at UCLA where she was Presidential Professor in Educational Equity. She is author of the influential book, Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. Winner of the 2013 AERA Social Justice in Education Award




Tracking



Unlocking the tradition



Twenty-five schools



The distribution of knowledge



Opportunities to learn



Classroom climate



Student attitudes : the legitimation of inequality



Vocational education



Some constitutional questions



The search for equity



The tracking wars



Democracy's canaries