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Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform.

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Oakes, Jeannie; And Others – Teachers College Record, 1997

This paper presents results from a 3-year longitudinal case study of 10 racially and socioeconomically mixed secondary schools participating in detracking reform. It explores how broadly held conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools and examines new constructions of intelligence and how they fit into school detracking.…

Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Behavior Standards, Case Studies, Cultural Differences