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- Title
"Increasing the Gap Between Whites and Blacks".
- Authors
Jones, James D.; Erickson, Edsel L.; Crowell, Ronald
- Abstract
An investigation of tracking in the seventh and eighth grades of a small city disclosed that Negroes were assigned in equal numbers to the three tracks in the seventh grade, but only 15% of the white students were assigned to the lowest track. In the eighth grade, the blacks shifted toward the bottom of the tracking system. Only 20% of the black students were in the academic track, compared to 47% of the whites, and 46% of the blacks were placed in the bottom track. This shift toward the bottom continued for black students in the ninth grade. The proportion of white students (30%) in the academic track in the ninth grade was three times as great as the proportion of black students (10%). Students were illegally identified by race on placement schedules. It appears that the support for tracking is largely rhetorical.
- Publication
Education & Urban Society, 1972, Vol 4, Issue 3, p339
- ISSN
0013-1245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001312457200400305