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What is Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work?
The title of Anyon's most important work.
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What are the Working-Class Schools?
The school where rote-memorization was primarily used to teach students.
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What is Automatic?
The various forms of tracking that were mentioned in the article are Overt, Covert, and this.
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What is the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University?
Professor Beth C. Rubin works at what at this school program as an Assistant Professor.
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What is 24?
The number of years Anyon worked for Rutgers University Newark (The State University of New Jersey).
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What is the Affluent Professional School?
This income span bracket represents approximately 7 percent of the families in the United States.
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What is Detracking?
This is defined as an attempt to group students heterogeneously as means of ensuring that all students, regardless of their race or class background or their academic ability, have access to high quality curriculum, teachers and material resources.
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What is homogenous?
Researchers in Netherlands found that students in ______________ clusters became more interested in the academic performance of their same-track peers, with a negative effect on low achievers and students in mixed-ability groupings were less vulnerable to this reference group.
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What is Empirical Data?
Other researchers had not collected this prior to Anyon's work. They had only hypothesized their findings.
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What is the Affluent Professional School?
The school where students made an 8mm film of Ancient Egypt.
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What are English and Social Studies?
The first subjects did the Southside High School in Rockville Centre, New York chose to apply detracking to.
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What is the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program?
This program focuses on lower achieving students of color, enrolled in college preparatory courses and in a support class that developed their academic skills and helped them to foster an academic identity.
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What is Urban Education?
Anyon's focus as a university faculty member.
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What is the Middle Class School?
The school with the most varied economic class described in the article.
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What is curriculum polarization?
Mathematics classes in the United Kingdom experienced a ___________ ____________, where high-tracked students were forced to move to rapidly through course material and low-tracked students experienced restrictions in their opportunities to learn.
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Who are parents of children previously placed in higher tracks?
Because they feared that efforts to promote detracking will result in low academic standards, this group of people were most opposed to the ideas of dectracking.
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What is 1941?
The year Jean Anyon was born.
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What is the Executive Elite School?
A teacher from this school said the quote here: "You are the only driver of your car-and only you can regulate your speed."
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Building a learning community that respects and makes productive use of diverse contributions from varied learners, Providing opportunities for diverse ways of learning, Providing support to individuals as needed, Challenging all students, Keeping learners actively involved, Building year long structures and ideas, Considering learners to be in control of their learning and building structures that support them in challenging themselves.
Name two of the seven effective teaching strategies that Freedman, Delp and Crawford stated in order to have a detracked classroom.
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What is low income students and students of color were disproportionately represented in lower tracks.
(Also Acceptable: What is the achievement gap between low and high track students was larger compared to students who drop high school and even high school graduates?)
Aside from the discovery made by Braddock and Dawkins that “students in lower tracks moved more through the curriculum and did worse in school” this was the other discover made by Gamoran.
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