Keeping track : how schools structure inequality Selected by the American School Board Journal as a Must Read book when it was first published and named one of sixty 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 tracking the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and two new final chapters in which she discusses the tracking wars of the past twenty years wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. Jacket Tracking Unlocking the Tradition Twenty five Schools The Distribution of Knowledge Opportunities to Learn Classroom Climate Student Attitudes: The Legitimation of Inequality Vocational Education Some Constitutional Questions The Search for Equity The Tracking Wars Democracys Canaries