Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our schools. This book describes the process of "untracking", an educational reform effort that has prepared students from low income, linguistic and ethnic minority backgrounds for college. Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book is a highly readable account of a successful school reform effort. It provides systematic research results concerning the educational and social consequences of untracking previously low achieving students, and will be of great importance to researchers in educational and social psychology.
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"This book is invaluable for its identification of the fact that we require fundamental change in school sorting practices..." Ellen Weber, Journal of Educational Thought
"The book offers eloquent theory...Constructing School Success remains an important book for those interested in school reform and social stratification literatures...The book is eloquent, and raises some provocative and important theoretical points. Educators, researchers, and graduate students interested in schools' potential to generate social and cultural capital, to modify structural constraints, and to facilitate the type of social agency that can propel disadvantaged youth to success should read this book." Stephen B. Plank and Nancy L. Karweit, Contemporary Sociology
"The book offers eloquent theory...Constructing School Success remains an important book for those interested in school reform and social stratification literatures...The book is eloquent, and raises some provocative and important theoretical points. Educators, researchers, and graduate students interested in schools' potential to generate social and cultural capital, to modify structural constraints, and to facilitate the type of social agency that can propel disadvantaged youth to success should read this book." Stephen B. Plank and Nancy L. Karweit, Contemporary Sociology
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Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book provides systematic research results concerning the educational and social consequences of untracking previously low achieving students.
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- Native Americans (Threatened Cultures Series) by James Wilson on page 34, and page 45
- Empowering Minority Students by Jim Cummins in Back Matter
- Handbook of Research on Teaching (Macmillan research on education handbook series) by Merlin C. Wittrock in Back Matter
- Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society by Martin Sanchez Jankowski in Back Matter
- Losing Ground : American Social Policy, 1950-1980 by Charles Murray in Back Matter
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- Education and the Arab World: Challenges of the Next Millennium by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism: Policy and Practice (Missouri Symposium on Research and Educational Policy) by Peter Hall on page 149
- Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning by Stanton Wortham in Back Matter
- Critical Voices in School Reform: Students Living through Change by Beth Rubin on page 54
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