Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving StudentsCambridge University Press, 31/05/1996 - 247 من الصفحات How can we bolster the academic success of low achieving students and provide a more egalitarian classroom setting? 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. Helpful institutional 'scaffolds' teach the hidden curriculum of the school, allowing students to develop an academic identity and build bridges between high school and college. There have been many plans and attempts to reform schools, but few detailed investigations of such efforts. 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. |
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Tracking Untracking | 21 |
Does Untracking Work? | 39 |
Background Characteristics and College Enrollment | 55 |
The Social Scaffolding Supporting Academic Placement | 77 |
Organizational Process Influencing Untracking | 102 |
Peer Group Influences Supporting Untracking | 134 |
Parents Contributions to Untracked Students Careers | 157 |
Implications for Educational Practice | 184 |
Implications for Theories Explaining Educational Inequality | 212 |
References | 232 |
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الصفحة 3 - Learning is funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the US Department of Education to conduct research on the education of language minority students in the United States.
الصفحة 13 - More than half of our young people leave school without the knowledge or foundation to find and hold a good job.
الصفحة 13 - Department's reaction to statutory language? Mr. Jones: The Department would comply with the law. SKILLS SHORTAGE Mr. Stokes: In a report titled "America's Choice: High Skills Or Low Wages', the National Center on Education and the Economy notes that 'Companies such as New York Telephone report hiring frustrations of epic proportions -- 57,000 applicants had to be tested to find 2,100 who were qualified to fill entry level technical jobs.' The report concludes that 'America's workers are ill-equipped...