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The tracking wars : state reform meets school policy
- Title
- The tracking wars : state reform meets school policy / Tom Loveless.
- Author
- Loveless, Tom, 1954-
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1999], ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | LB3061.8 .L68 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 194 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the 1980s a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to "tracking," the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by level of difficulty. Officials in two states, Massachusetts and California, adopted policies urging middle schools to reduce or abandon tracking.
- In this book, Tom Loveless describes how schools reacted to these recommendations and discusses why some schools went along with detracking, while others bitterly resisted the reform."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Implementing Tracking Reform -- 2. The Origins of Tracking Reform -- 3. The Schools Respond -- 4. Influences on Tracking Policy -- 5. Governing Reform -- 6. Tracking and the Subject Area -- 7. The Classroom, the Teacher, and Tracking Reform -- 8. The Fate of Reform.
- ISBN
- 0815753063 (cloth : perm. paper)
- 0815753055 (pbk. : perm. paper)
- LCCN
- 99006372
- OCLC
- 41184970
- ocm41184970
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries