Tracking inequality : stratification and mobility in American high schools / Samuel Roundfield Lucas ; [foreword by Jeannie Oakes].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lucas, Samuel Roundfield.

Series:

• Sociology of education series (New York, N.Y.)
• Sociology of education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Education, Secondary--Social aspects--United States.
• Educational equalization--United States.
• Educational equalization.
• Education, Secondary--Social aspects.
• Education, Secondary.
• United States.
• Social mobility--United States.
• Social mobility.
• Educational change--United States.
• Educational change.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [1999]

Summary:

What has happened since formal tracking was dismantled in U.S. high schools? In this provocative book, Samuel Lucas reveals that many unintended consequences actually served to transform and submerge a stubborn system of in-school inequality. Drawing on nationally representative data and highly sophisticated methodologies, Lucas examines how the contemporary curricular structure works, including the scope of the structure, mobility within the structure, how an individual's location in the structure is socially patterned, and the consequences of these locations for a student's college entry and career path.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.

ISBN:

• 0807737992
• 0807737984

OCLC:

40135281