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ERIC Number: EJ1027833
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-May
Pages: 32
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-6744
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An International Comparison of Achievement Inequality in Within- and Between-School Tracking Systems
Chmielewski, Anna K.
American Journal of Education, v120 n3 p293-324 May 2014
Secondary school tracking is organized in some countries on a course-by-course basis within schools and in other countries as explicit academic and vocational streaming, often in separate school buildings. This article is the first to compare these two forms of tracking, using student-level tracking data across the United States and 19 other developed countries. Results indicate that course-by-course tracking is less segregated by socioeconomic status (SES) than is academic/vocational streaming. Yet both forms of tracking have comparable achievement gaps between tracks. Among students in the same track, SES disparities in achievement are larger in course-by-course tracking than in academic/vocational streaming.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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