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Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation
reviewed by Michael D. Usdan - February 05, 2009
 Title: Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation
Author(s): Jeanne Oakes and Marisa Saunders (Eds.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
ISBN: 193474204X, Pages: 280, Year: 2008
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Beyond Tracking makes a persuasive case for radical reform of the American high school through a multiple pathways approach designed to meet the divergent needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Beyond Tracking compellingly calls for transformative changes in the fundamental structures and processes of secondary education. High school reform has been a persistent issue for decades. The issue has a contemporary saliency, however, that makes this volume particularly timely. The country is faced with virtually unprecedented domestic and international problems. The global economy is increasingly competitive, and Americas worldwide economic and political hegemony is undeniably diminished. Demographic changes are profoundly reshaping the nations population. Definitions of majority-minority are shifting as school populations are increasingly of color, particularly in urban areas and in large megastates like California, Texas, Florida and New York. The numbers and impact of these new populations make the need for school improvement and equalized educational opportunity an imperative... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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- Michael Usdan
Institute for Educational Leadership
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MICHAEL D. USDAN served as President of the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) from 1981 through 2001. As of July 1, 2001, he became a Senior Fellow at the organization.
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