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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 …