Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students

ISBN-13: 9780521560764 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

San Diego) Hugh Mehan (University of California; San Diego) Irene Villanueva (University of California; San Diego) Lea Hubbard (University of California

Opis

Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our schools. This book describes the process of "untracking," an educational reform effort that has prepared students from low income, linguistic and ethnic minority backgrounds for college. Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book is a highly readable account of a successful school reform effort. It provides systematic research results concerning the educational and social consequences of untracking previously low achieving students, and will be of great importance to researchers in educational and social psychology.

Recenzje

"The book offers eloquent theory...Constructing School Success remains an important book for those interested in school reform and social stratification literatures...The book is eloquent, and raises some provocative and important theoretical points. Educators, researchers, and graduate students interested in schools' potential to generate social and cultural capital, to modify structural constraints, and to facilitate the type of social agency that can propel disadvantaged youth to success should read this book." Stephen B. Plank and Nancy L. Karweit, Contemporary Sociology

Spis treści

1. Does untracking work?; 2. The influence of background characteristics on college enrollment; 3. The social scaffolding supporting academic placement; 4. Organizational processes influencing untracking; 5. Peer group influences supporting untracking; 6. Parents' contributions to untracked students' careers; 7. Conclusions and implications.