Sociologist Jeannie Oakes studied the effects of tracking and found that
a. poor and minority students are not tracked.
b. the different tracks are treated as equally valued instructional groups.
c. low track students eventually catch up with those in the higher tracks.
d. parents of bright students were the greatest supporters of tracking.
Question 2Research suggests that tracking has ______________ effect on higher-track students.
a. no noticeable c. the most negative
b. the most positive d. an insidious
Question 3Sociologist Jeannie Oakes studied a wide range of school systems and came to the conclusion that __________ has/have the greatest effect on quality of education.
a. tracking
b. rural-urban environments
c. the type of school (public versus private)
d. the amount of cultural diversity
Question 4While most countries track students, the U.S. appears distinct in that
a. every student still takes the same courses.
b. it assigns a remedial or watered down curriculum to those in lower tracks.
c. it seeks to narrow academic differences between high track and low track students.
d. low track students are exposed to a stimulating curricula.
Question 5Most, if not all, educational systems sort students into distinct instructional groups.This practice is known as
a. the credential society. c. tracking.
b. schooling. d. self-fulfilling prophecy.
Question 6____________ argue that schools simply perpetuate the inequalities of the larger society.
a. Structural strain theorists c. Symbolic interactionists
b. Conflict theorists d. Functionalists
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