Summary Of Keeping Tracking By Jeannie Oakes
Keeping Track: Summary
In Jeannie Oakes's Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, her "Keeping Track" excerpt explains the way teachers estimate a students ability to learn. Tracking is a strategy used by school and teachers to separate the "cream of the crop." From an early age students are testing on their ability to learn and their overall knowledge. Students are broken down into categories, for example; fast, average and slow learners. Many times the segregation is not based on what students are capable of, rather what the teacher believes the student it capable of. Thus putting teachers (often only one) in charge of a students entire career in school. Rarely are students themselves allowed to choose their directional
In Jeannie Oakes's Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, her "Keeping Track" excerpt explains the way teachers estimate a students ability to learn. Tracking is a strategy used by school and teachers to separate the "cream of the crop." From an early age students are testing on their ability to learn and their overall knowledge. Students are broken down into categories, for example; fast, average and slow learners. Many times the segregation is not based on what students are capable of, rather what the teacher believes the student it capable of. Thus putting teachers (often only one) in charge of a students entire career in school. Rarely are students themselves allowed to choose their directional