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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequalityreviewed by Kenneth A. Strike - 1986  Title: Keeping Track: How Schools Structure InequalityAuthor(s): Jeannie Oakes Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300037252, Pages: , Year: 1986 Search for book at Amazon.com This book is a discussion of the practice of tracking in twenty-five junior high and high schools. The data are taken from John Goodlads project A Study of Schooling. The book provides detailed descriptive data on the practice of tracking in these twenty-five schools and on the effects of tracking on the education of the children in these schools. It embeds the results in an interpretative framework borrowed from recent neo-Marxist critics of schooling in capitalist societies, relying particularly on the work of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.1 Thus, tracking is seen as one of a set of practices that are intended to provide equal educational opportunities to a diverse population with diverse abilities and diverse needs, but that in fact serve to reproduce the inequalities of the larger society while legitimating such inequality to its victims. The book concludes with a discussion of the legal status of tracking and... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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