Product Description: This updated edition of Setting Our Sights outlines the five stages for equity reform while clearly explaining research findings and offering practical tools and examples. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This most significant publication takes the call for standards-based reform out of the political and upper-echelon educational arenas and into the classroom. It deals fully and fairly with "the complexity of implementing standards in all classes for all students," and makes it clear that "standards-based reform involves changing not simply the content of learning but the standard operating procedures of schools...read more

Looks at schools that have abandoned tracking--ability grouping of students--and discusses parental involvement, teacher training, and curriculum reform

An examination of the racism inherent in 'tracking'--grouping students by ability determined by racist exams--looks at the schools that have successful reintegrated their classrooms and discusses parental involvement, teacher training, curriculum reform, and more.