- This study analyzes whether patterns of track mobility differ by racial-ethnic and social class groups and whether tournament mobility is occurring.
- The results for English classes is that all groups analyzed experienced the same mobility regime and similar prospects for mobility.
- In math, Blacks/Latinos experienced different regimes from Whites.
- SES alone does not create a different regime.
- Blacks/Latinos regardless of class tended to experience more downward mobility.
- Students of different social classes do not, by virtue of their class position alone, experience different mobility regimes.
- In English, upper-class Whites, lower-class Whites, upperclass Blacks and Latinos-Latinas, and lowerclass Blacks and Latinos-Latinas seem to encounter not only the same regime, but the same prospects for mobility within that regime. In mathematics, however, they appear to confront fundamentally different mobility regimes.