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  title info:
    title: On the same track
    sub title: how schools can join the twenty-first-century struggle against resegregation
  name:
    name part: Burris, Carol Corbett.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 197 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A public school principal's account of the courageous leaders who have dismantled the tracking systems in their schools in order to desegregate classrooms and provide better learning experiences for all students. Since the beginning of the last century, the sorting of students into different "tracks" has resulted in segregated classrooms and unequal learning opportunities for students. This book traces the origins of tracking, from its beginnings in the early 20th century to today. As Burris takes readers through this history, she argues that tracking perpetuates de facto segregation within districts that were ordered by the courts to desegregate. Drawing on the latest research, Burris shows how tracking results in achievement gaps and racial and class stratification. Burris then chronicles the struggles of courageous school leaders, teachers and parents as they sought to overcome race, class and intellectual prejudice and dismantle the student sorting systems in their schools. Finally, she provides timely caution regarding how some of the present day reforms may result in further racial and socioeconomic segregation, undermining some of the progress that schools have made in creating more equitable learning experiences for children.
  note: Carol Corbett Burris.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Track system (Education)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Educational equalization
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Multicultural Education
  classification: LB3061.8 .B88 2014
  classification: 371.2/540973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Simmons College/Beacon Press race, education, and democracy series book
  identifier: 9780807032978 (hardback)
  identifier: 0807032972 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013039594
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131028
    record change date: 20151206095921.0
    record identifier: in00003451213