Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, by Jeannie Oakes PAPERBACK

Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation\nby Jeannie Oakes\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeannie Oakes\nTitle: Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Secondary schools\nPublisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group\nPublication year: 2008\nISBN-13: 9781934742044\nISBN-10: 193474204X\nRRP: \u00A332.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn their introduction to Beyond Tracking, Jeannie Oakes and Marisa Saunders offer a sobering assessment of American high schools: \u201CEvidence abounds that high schools simply don\u2019t work very well: witness strikingly high dropout rates, large percentages of graduates unprepared to succeed in college or career, education gaps .