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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.
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Selected by the American School Board Journal a Must Read book when it was first published and named one of 60 Books of the Century by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how taking--reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps I perpetuate them. For his new edition, Jennies Oaks has added a new Pre force and two new chapters in which she discusses the tracking wars of the last twenty years.wars in which Keeping hand has played a central role.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Oromaner, M., & Oakes, J.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1986-01
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2000548691
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- References
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- FWCI
- 195.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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