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ERIC Number: EJ530276
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
(Li)Ability Grouping: The New Susceptibility of School Tracking Systems to Legal Challenges.
Welner, Kevin G.; Oakes, Jeannie
Harvard Educational Review, v66 n3 p451-70 Fall 1996
A survey of case law, desegregation literature, and four cases in which researchers served as expert witnesses concludes that litigation and court mandates can play an indispensable role in initiating detracking in schools and districts where such reforms are otherwise unlikely. (SK)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Responsibility, Research Utilization, School Desegregation, Track System (Education)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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