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Tracking Through the Life Course of Education

Sat, April 14, 8:15 to 9:45am, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton Center

Session Type: Symposium

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Despite decades of research indicating that tracking profoundly affects students’ experiences, opportunities, and outcomes, these sorting practices persist across all levels of education. The negative consequences of tracking are well documented and include the widening of class-based inequality as well as what some call “second-generation segregation”— the result of racialized tracking within secondary schools (Tyson, 2013). This session aims to thread new questions on this aged academic issue throughout the life course of education – from the earliest years of primary education, through high school, and into higher education. Collectively, the panel provides diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of tracking, challenging commonly held perceptions of this practice while reaffirming the persistence of a troubled past.

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