The Tracking Wars
Subtitle: State Reform Meets School Policy
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780815753056
Subjects: Central government policies; Organization & management of education; Schools; Massachusetts; Education / Teaching; Education; USA; Track system (Education); Administration - General; Educational Policy & Reform; Evaluation; California
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."--BOOK JACKET.