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Using Social Network Analysis To Measure And Visualize Student Clustering Within Middle And High Schools, Geoffrey David West
Using Social Network Analysis To Measure And Visualize Student Clustering Within Middle And High Schools, Geoffrey David West
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The dominant philosophy of American public schools has been to group students together based on similar characteristics. Known as tracking, high achieving students would take courses on the “college track” while others would take “career track” courses. It was not long until advocates noticed that this process unfairly advantaged affluent and White student over poor and minoritized groups. A new process called “ability grouping” took over where tracking left off, but to the same effect. It is difficult to measure the degree students are grouped together by a certain characteristic, and while a few research papers aim to do so, …