The Tracking Wars: State Reform Meets School Policy

by Tom Loveless

Book Overview

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815753055
• ISBN13: 9780815753056
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"