ERIC Number: ED606950
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Apr-30
Pages: 7
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Crossing Tracks: How Students in Mainstream and Advanced-Track Classes Discuss Their Career Aspirations
McCardle, Todd
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Antonio, TX, Apr 27-May 1, 2017)
This research presentation seeks to illustrate how tracking produces within-school segregation, which, in turn, shapes the future aspirations of students. Scholars have shown that while schools have become more racially integrated over the years, another sociological phenomenon has occurred: within-school segregation as brought on by tracking. Seven students from the same high school in two separate academic tracks participated in this phenomenological study. Results reveal how divergent tracks created a school within a school, where students were homogeneously grouped and had limited contact with students from other groups. Each track formed and/or limited the future aspirations of the students it served.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Track System (Education), Academic Education, High School Students, Homogeneous Grouping, Advanced Placement Programs, Magnet Schools, Language Arts, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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