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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality | 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 edition: �Should be read by anyone who wishes to improve schools.��M. Donald Thomas, American School Board Journal �[This] engaging [book] . . . has had an influence on educational thought and policy that few works of social science ever achieve.��Tom Loveless in The Tracking Wars �Should be read by teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents.��Georgia Lewis, Childhood Education �Valuable. . . . No one interested in the topic can afford not to attend to it.��Kenneth A. Strike, Teachers College Record (less)
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, (…more)
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