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Oakes, Jeannie – Educational Researcher, 2018
AERA's centennial provides an opportunity to reinvigorate the aspirations that gave rise to our research community in the United States: hope and determination that research can strengthen public education, society's most democratic institution. The first AERAers sought to produce scientific knowledge to improve large, increasingly diverse urban…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Educational Research, Democracy, Educational Policy
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Oakes, Jeannie – Educational Researcher, 1992
Argues that tracking students for instruction is usually neither equitable nor effective. Reviews what has been learned about tracking, considers impacts of these findings, and suggests new research to target needs of reformers more directly. Understanding and changing the norms and policies that buttress tracking is essential to reform. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Practices