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Oakes, Jeannie; Espinoza, Daniel; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Gonzales, Carmen; DePaoli, Jennifer; Kini, Tara; Hoachlander, Gary; Burns, Dion; Griffth, Michael; Leung, Melanie – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
For more than a year, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducted research in New Mexico, including interviews, site visits, document review, and new analyses of data provided by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED). The purpose of the study was to provide New Mexico leaders a research perspective on the challenges facing education…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, State Policy, Evidence Based Practice
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Oakes, Jeannie; And Others – Teachers College Record, 1997
This paper presents results from a 3-year longitudinal case study of 10 racially and socioeconomically mixed secondary schools participating in detracking reform. It explores how broadly held conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools and examines new constructions of intelligence and how they fit into school detracking.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Behavior Standards, Case Studies, Cultural Differences
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Oakes, Jeannie – Journal of Education, 1986
Examines the historical, political, and economic context of differentiated schooling. Argues that tracking perpetuates inequality. Evaluates the influence on education of the politics of economic scarcity, social conservatism, and assumptions about abilities and the role of schools in providing equal opportunity. (KH)
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education
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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