Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation
Beyond Tracking is a must-read for school leaders and policymakers. The ideas in this book point towards an educational system that provides enriched learning experiences for all students, so that they will be able to succeed in further studies and in the workplace, and so that they can make notable contributions to the common good. --Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice President, Southern Regional Education BoardBeyond Tracking offers a compelling view of multiple pathways and how they might transform American high schools. In its insistence that fundamental reforms are needed and in its detailed consideration of how reformed high schools would better prepare students for both college and work this book is an indispensable contribution to efforts to reimagine, and improve, high school education in America. --Ramon C. Cortines, Senior Deputy Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School DistrictBeyond Tracking is a call to arms. Especially notable is that it presents citizenship as a core element of student learning. This link between learning and citizenship has been undervalued in our current quest to reform American public schools. --Wendy D. Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network