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Oakes, Jeannie; Espinoza, Daniel; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Gonzales, Carmen; DePaoli, Jennifer; Kini, Tara; Hoachlander, Gary; Burns, Dion; Griffth, Michael; Leung, Melanie – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
For more than a year, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducted research in New Mexico, including interviews, site visits, document review, and new analyses of data provided by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED). The purpose of the study was to provide New Mexico leaders a research perspective on the challenges facing education…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, State Policy
Oakes, Jeannie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Continues the argument against tracking and ability grouping in schools. Traces circumstances and beliefs leading to this system of handling student diversity and shows how these factors obstruct schools' efforts to achieve two highly valued goals: academic excellence and equal opportunity. Suggests alternative approaches. (MLH)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Educational Change
Keating, Pamela; Oakes, Jeannie – 1988
School barriers to equal access need to be removed by fundamentally new policy initiatives at the state and district levels in order to assure educational opportunities for at-risk students. Gender, race, poverty and individual disabilities continue to generate barriers for at-risk students despite broad legal efforts at reform. The following…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Board of Education Policy, Disadvantaged, Educational Change