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Beyond Tracking
. Ed(S): Oakes, Jeanne; Saunders, Marisa
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Paperback. Is high school as we know it a thing of the past?" Beyond Tracking" develops multiple pathway systems that offer college prep, professional and technical training, field-based learning, and workplace simulation to augment the high school experience. Editor(s): Oakes, Jeanne; Saunders, Marisa. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 454.
In their introduction to Beyond Tracking, Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders offer a sobering assessment of American high schools: “Evidence abounds that high schools simply don’t work very well: witness strikingly high dropout rates, large percentages of graduates unprepared to succeed in college or career, education gaps that jeopardize African American and Latino students’ life chances, and widespread student disengagement. This pervasive dysfunction exacts a high price from students and from the nation’s social, economic, and civic welfare.” Beyond Tracking responds to this dilemma by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The ... Read more
In their introduction to Beyond Tracking, Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders offer a sobering assessment of American high schools: “Evidence abounds that high schools simply don’t work very well: witness strikingly high dropout rates, large percentages of graduates unprepared to succeed in college or career, education gaps that jeopardize African American and Latino students’ life chances, and widespread student disengagement. This pervasive dysfunction exacts a high price from students and from the nation’s social, economic, and civic welfare.” Beyond Tracking responds to this dilemma by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781934742044
SKU
V9781934742044
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Ref
99-3
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