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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11236127.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-185) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 194 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0815753055 (pbk. : perm. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0815753063 (cloth : perm. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "California.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "371.2/54/0973 21".
- catalog subject "LB3061.8 .L68 1999".
- catalog subject "Track system (Education) California.".
- catalog subject "Track system (Education) Massachusetts.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The tracking wars : state reform meets school policy / Tom Loveless.".
- catalog type "text".