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Baker, Bruce D. – National Education Policy Center, 2011
"Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade" is a new report from Third Way, a Washington, D.C.-based policy think tank. The report aims to convince parents, taxpayers and policymakers that they should be as concerned about middle-class schools not making the grade as they are about the failures of the nation's large, poor, urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Class, Classification, Educational Change
Moore, Donald R.; Davenport, Suzanne – 1988
The results of a 2-year study examining the ways that four major urban school systems (New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston) sort students into different schools, tracks, ability groups, and grade levels are summarized in this report. The study looked carefully at the effects of these sorting practices on low-income, minority, limited…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classification, Dropout Rate, Grade Repetition