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ERIC Number: EJ568180
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-6744
Differentiation and Opportunity in Restructured Schools.
Gamoran, Adam; Weinstein, Matthew
American Journal of Education, v106 n3 p385-415 May 1998
Examines the responses of 24 highly restructured schools' responses to balancing the competing aims of providing students with common experiences and addressing differences among individual students. Data show that the elimination of tracking is a goal idealized more than it is attained. Conditions supporting quality instruction for diverse students are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, School Restructuring, Track System (Education)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Differentiation; Reform Efforts
Note: Research supported by the Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research with funds from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement through grants R117Q00005 and R117G10007. Version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (Washington, DC, August 1995).