Tracking and Ability Grouping in American Schools: Some Constitutional Questions.

Oakes, Jeannie

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ERIC Number: EJ283314

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1983

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Tracking and Ability Grouping in American Schools: Some Constitutional Questions.

Oakes, Jeannie

Teachers College Record, v84 n4 p801-19 Sum 1983

Constitutional bases for challenging ability grouping practices in the schools using the track system are presented. Research findings on ability grouping, law review journal articles, and texts of court cases are analyzed to determine possible grounds for such suits. (PP)

Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Access to Education, Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Children, School Law, Student Rights, Student School Relationship, Track System (Education)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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