 Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality (2d ed.)reviewed by Kathryn A. McDermott - July 20, 2006  Title: Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality (2d ed.)Author(s): Jeannie Oakes Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300108303, Pages: 332, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Since it was first published in 1985, Jeannie Oakes’s landmark book Keeping Track has had the sort of impact that most academic authors only dream about, influencing not only educational researchers, but also practitioners and policy makers. The selection of students into vocational, college-preparatory, honors, and “general” tracks on the basis of their measured ability or prior performance was once an unexamined common occurrence of U.S. middle and high schools, but during the last 20 years it has become a hotly contested political issue. Keeping Track was a major catalyst of this debate. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Keeping Track, Oakes has published a second edition with new material that extends her previous arguments into the present. In the preface to the second edition, Oakes explains that she chose to update her classic work for several reasons: tracking itself has changed, she and others have conducted more research on detracking,... (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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