School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.
Current Selections
ClearThe Effect of Schools and Classes on Language Achievement
The effect of schools and classes upon literacy in the second grade of secondary education.
Tracking and Mixed-Ability Grouping in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms: A Case Study
Trying to test if tracking produces systematic differences in provision of students.
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Document and measure the extent of interracial contact within schools.
Classroom Composition and Peer Effects
The extent to which the composition of classes affects learning outcomes.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Educational Outcomes: Cambridge, MA School District
Impact of racial and ethnic diversity on educational outcomes
Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking
Assess impact of achievement and sociodemographic diversity for tracking
School Composition and Peer Effects in Distinctive Organizational Settings
Reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives.
Short Circuits or Superconductors? Effects of Group Composition on High-Achieving Students' Science Assessment Performance
Analyze the group processes intensely in order to understand the impact of group composition on group functioning & the scores of high-ability student
A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities
Examine how race, family background, attitudes, and behaviors are related to achievement
Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility
Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?
Subverting Swann: First- and Second Generation Segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Effects of First and Second Generation segregation on the academic outcomes of CMS students.
Organizational Context for Student Achievement: The Case of Student Racial Compositions
Exploring the relationship between school desegregation (race, SES, and school racial compostion) and student achievement and self-concept.
The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate
What have we actually learned about tracking and ability grouping?
Course-Taking, Equity, and Mathematics Learning: Testing the Constrained Curriculum Hypothesis in U.S. Secondary Schools
How the organization of the mathematics curriculum in U.S. high schools affects how much students learn in that subject.
Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform
Explores how conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools.
Tracking and Transitions Through the Middle Grades: Channeling Educational Trajectories
Examines sources of influence on inner-city students’ initial middle school placements in English and mathematics and continuity and change in placements through the end of middle school
Brown vs. Board of Education
History of Brown v. Board of Education
High Standards in a Tracked System of Schooling: For Which Students and with What Educational Supports?
Equitable opportunity for all children to learn challenging curricula. Changing limiting beliefs of teacher’s methods.
An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping
Examines variation in the quality and effects of instructional discourse across ability groups.
Individual and Organizational Predictors of High School Track Placement
What is the importance of school characteristics in the determination of track placement?
All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
Classroom Structure, Functioning, and Student Outcomes: An Organizational-Cultural Approach to Classroom Research
The relations between classroom organization characteristics and student education outcomes, with a focus on the classroom functioning mechanism.
Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions
Examines how educators frame tracking decisions.
The Promise of Brown and the Reality of Academic Groups: The Tracks of My Tears
Examines the antecedents of academic tracking and ability grouping in America and reviews the justification for these concepts in public schools.
Off The Track
Impact of current tracking practices and impacts. Showing how these practices are harming millions of students and our society.
Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?
Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.
The Variable Effects of High School Tracking
Analyzes how the structure of the tracking system is related to differences in achievement.
The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School
The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.
The Organizational Context of Tracking in Schools
How do the organizational characteristics of schools affect the tracking system?
Curriculum Tracking as Mediating the Social Distribution of High School Achievement
Differences in how tracking decisions are made. Pattern of students’ course enrollments within academic tracks.
Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships
Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness
Ability Grouping and its Alternatives: Must We Track?
What is the evidence about the achievement effects of ability grouping? What are the alternatives?
Cross-Group Contact Opportunities: Impact on Interpersonal Relationships in Desegregated Middle Schools
Examines the effects of school organizational structure on students’ interracial and cross-sex communication patterns
Tracking and Ability Grouping in American Schools: Some Constitutional Questions
Examine from a constitutional perspective the bases on which ability grouping and tracking might be challenged as barriers to equal educational opp.
Curricula and Coursework: A Surprise Ending to a Familiar Story
Why are some students placed in college tracks and others not? Why is track placement so influential?