Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students

Mehan, Hugh, Villanueva, Irene, Hubbard, Lea, Lintz, Angela,

ISBN 10: 0521560764 / ISBN 13: 9780521560764

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521560764
• ISBN 13: 9780521560764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our schools. This book describes the process of "untracking", an educational reform effort that has prepared students from low income, linguistic and ethnic minority backgrounds for college. Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book is a highly readable account of a successful school reform effort. It provides systematic research results concerning the educational and social consequences of untracking previously low achieving students, and will be of great importance to researchers in educational and social psychology.

From the Back Cover

This volume explores the San Diego untracking experiment. It marks the first systematic research conducted on the efforts to reform the tracking system. It examines the college enrollment of students who have participated in the AVID untracking program and compares their enrollment with local and national averages.