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Beyond Tracking - Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation (Paperback)
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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 book’s authors
clearly distinguish their use of the term “multiple pathways”
from any updated version of the tracking system that marked so many
American high schools during the past century, and from career and
technical education programs. Instead, Oakes and Saunders propose a
system of multiple pathways that will “provide both the academic
and real-world foundations that students need for advanced
learning, training, and preparation for responsible civic
participation.” All multiple pathways schools will have four main
components: a college-preparatory core; a professional/technical
core; field-based learning and realistic workplace simulations; and
additional support services to meet the particular needs of
students and communities. “In this conception of multiple
pathways, students and their families choose from among a variety
of options, all of which lead students to the same destination:
preparation to succeed in both college and career, not one or the
other.” In its detailed and innovative examination of multiple
pathways, Beyond Tracking makes a crucial contribution to current
discussions about high school reform and the educational challenges
of the 21st century.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2008 |
Editors: |
Jeannie Oakes
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Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-934742-04-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-934742-04-X |
Barcode: |
9781934742044 |
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