Keeping Track¶
Oakes, J. (1985). Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. Yale University Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Readiness Grouping
- Its signature failure is that a "temporary" group quietly becomes permanent — the diagnostic stops running, mobility dries up, and readiness grouping decays into tracking, the long-studied harm of fixed ability groups that depress the expectations and outcomes of those placed low.
This sourceDocuments how fixed ability grouping becomes tracking that depresses expectations and outcomes for students placed in lower groups.
- Its signature failure is that a "temporary" group quietly becomes permanent — the diagnostic stops running, mobility dries up, and readiness grouping decays into tracking, the long-studied harm of fixed ability groups that depress the expectations and outcomes of those placed low.
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