A New Imperative for Detracking Schools. A Book Review of On the Same Track:How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle Against Resegregation

Authors

Pamela D. Fisher, Great Schools PartnershipFollow

Abstract

In her 2014 book, On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle Against Resegregation, Burris builds upon the compelling case made for detracking put forth by Oakes and others in the 1970s and ’80s. Today, decades after the pioneers in detracking schools, Burris revisits the tracking practices still prevalent in America’s public schools through the lenses of those who are in the racial or ethnic minority and who are poor and at a time when school accountability often drives school practice and school choice to additional layers of sorting.

Recommended Citation

Fisher, P. D. (2015). A New Imperative for Detracking Schools. A Book Review of On the Same Track:How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle Against Resegregation. Democracy and Education, 23 (2), Article 12.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol23/iss2/12