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Publications: Tracking and Detracking

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Margaret Thornton

February 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Ohio’s Lost Einsteins: The Inequitable Outcomes of Early High Achievers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2021)

NEPC Review

Eunice S. Han and Yongmei Ni

December 2, 2021

Tracking and the Future of Career and Technical Education: How Efforts to Connect School and Work Can Avoid the Past Mistakes of Vocational Education

Policy Brief

Emily Hodge, Shaun Dougherty, and Carol C. Burris

February 25, 2020

NEPC Review: Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP (The Education Trust, July 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

September 25, 2018

NEPC Review: High Stakes for High Achievers:
State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

January 26, 2017

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement

NEPC Review

Marshall Jean

April 26, 2016

Is American Education on a Bad Track?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

August 8, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Test Scores?

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris and Katherine E. Allison

April 2, 2013

Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation

Legislative Brief

Marisa Saunders and Christopher A. Chrisman

April 7, 2011

Universal Access to a Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification

Legislative Brief

Carol C. Burris, Kevin G. Welner, and Jennifer Bezoza

December 14, 2009

Reviews Worth Sharing: Tracking and Detracking: High Achievers in Massachusetts Middle Schools (December 2009)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kevin G. Welner

December 14, 2009

Multiple Pathways: 21st Century High Schools that Prepare All Students for College, Career and Civic Participation

Legislative Brief

Marisa Saunders and Christopher A. Chrisman

December 1, 2008

Accountability, Rigor, and Detracking

Resource Document

Carol C. Burris, Edward W. Wiley, and Kevin G. Welner

March 1, 2008

The Use of Assessment for Curricular Differentiation

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and K. Martinez

January 1, 2007

Alternative Approaches to the Politics of Detracking

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

January 1, 2006

Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking

Resource Document

Carol C. Burris and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2005

Rethinking Expert Testimony in Education Rights Legislation

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Haggai Kupermintz

January 1, 2004

Ability Tracking: What Role for the Courts?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2002

Tracking in an Era of Standards: Low-Expectation Classes Meet High-Expectation Laws

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2001

Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2001

Navigating the Politics of Detracking

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2000