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Domina, Thurston; Hanselman, Paul; Hwang, NaYoung; McEachin, Andrew – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Between 2003 and 2013, the proportion of California eighth graders enrolled in algebra or a more advanced course nearly doubled to 65%. In this article, we consider the organizational processes that accompanied this curricular intensification. Facing a complex set of accountability, institutional, technical/functional, and internal political…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Track System (Education), Student Placement, Mathematics
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Domina, Thurston; McEachin, Andrew; Hanselman, Paul; Agarwal, Priyanka; Hwang, NaYoung; Lewis, Ryan W. – Sociology of Education, 2019
Schools use an array of strategies to match curricula and instruction to students' heterogeneous skills. Although generations of scholars have debated ''tracking'' and its consequences, the literature fails to account for diversity of school-level sorting practices. In this article, we draw on the work of Sørensen and others to articulate and…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Homogeneous Grouping, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies
Domina, Thurston; Hanselman, Paul; Hwang, NaYoung; McEachin, Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2016
Between 2003 and 2013, the proportion of California 8th graders enrolled in Algebra or a more advanced course nearly doubled to 65 percent. In this paper, we consider the organizational processes that accompanied this curricular intensification. Facing a complex set of accountability, institutional, technical/functional, and internal political…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Track System (Education), Student Placement, Mathematics
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Domina, Thurston; McEachin, Andrew; Penner, Andrew; Penner, Emily – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
The United States is in the midst of an effort to intensify middle school mathematics curricula by enrolling more 8th graders in Algebra. California is at the forefront of this effort, and in 2008, the state moved to make Algebra the accountability benchmark test for 8th-grade mathematics. This article takes advantage of this unevenly implemented…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement