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The Maintenance Of Tracking : The Role Of Organizational Culture, Dora Acherman-Chor
The Maintenance Of Tracking : The Role Of Organizational Culture, Dora Acherman-Chor
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Modern comprehensive high schools do not formally track students into different programs, but schools offer different curricular sequences with important and stratified consequences for students' post-secondary education. This study used qualitative methodology to examine how schools' organizational cultures influence the maintenance of tracking practices in four comprehensive high schools in Miami. The methodology included long-term participant observation in each of the four schools, unstructured and semi-structured interviews and the collection of written documents produced by the district. A framework based on the concepts of environment, mission,, information, strategy, and leadership was used to analyze the data.
It was found that …
Influences On Immigrant Students' Perceptions Of The Chances Of Making It In The United States, Velmarie L. Albertini
Influences On Immigrant Students' Perceptions Of The Chances Of Making It In The United States, Velmarie L. Albertini
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This study examined immigrant minority students' perceptions of race relations and of the chances for social mobility in the United States (U.S.) using cohort samples of West Indian (N=173) and Haitian (N=191) students. The Students' responses collected during the 6th and 7th, 8th and 9th grades were analyzed to determine whether perceptions of racial mistrust, teacher derogation and social mobility varied depending on the student's length of stay in the U.S. or self-concept. Quantitative methodology was applied to data extrapolated from a larger epidemiological longitudinal study consisting of 7, 386 middle school students in Miami (Vega and Gil, 1998).
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