Download or read book The Tracking Wars written by Tom Loveless and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to "tracking," the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by level of difficulty. Officials in two states, Massachusetts and California, adopted policies urging middle schools to reduce or abandon tracking. In this book, Tom Loveless describes how schools reacted to these recommendations and discusses why some schools went along with detracking while others bitterly resisted the reform. Loveless explains that the state policies were adopted without strict mandates, financial incentives, legal threats, or new bureaucratic structures. They were also adopted without convincing evidence that detracking brings lasting benefits to students. But advocates framed tracking reform as a policy supporting greater educational equity. In response, urban schools, low-achieving schools, and schools serving disadvantaged children have reacted sympathetically to the reform. Suburban schools, high-achieving schools, and schools serving wealthier families have been less willing to detrack. Drawing on extensive survey and case study data, Loveless concludes that this reform's fate is in the hands of local decisionmakers. Schools formulate tracking policy based on their own institutional, organizational, political, and technical considerations. All school reform entails risks. One troubling implication of this study is that the risks of detracking are being assumed by schools with some of society's most vulnerable youngsters.
Download or read book The Tracking Wars written by Tom Loveless and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In the 1980s, a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to ""tracking,"" the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by level of difficulty. Officials in two states, Massachusetts and California, adopted policies urging middle schools to reduce or abandon tracking. In this book, Tom Loveless describes how schools reacted to these recommendations and discusses why some schools went along with detracking while others bitterly resisted the reform. Loveless explains that the state policies were adopted without strict mandates, financial incentives, legal threats, or new bureaucratic structures. They were also adopted without convincing evidence that detracking brings lasting benefits to students. But advocates framed tracking reform as a policy supporting greater educational equity. In response, urban schools, low-achieving schools, and schools serving disadvantaged children have reacted sympathetically to the reform. Suburban schools, high-achieving schools, and schools serving wealthier families have been less willing to detrack. Drawing on extensive survey and case study data, Loveless concludes that this reform's fate is in the hands of local decisionmakers. Schools formulate tracking policy based on their own institutional, organizational, political, and technical considerations. All school reform entails risks. One troubling implication of this study is that the risks of detracking are being assumed by schools with some of society's most vulnerable youngsters. "
Download or read book In the Track of the Troops A Tale of Modern War written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Keeping Track written by Jeannie Oakes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the American School Board Journal as a “Must Read” book when it was first published and named one of 60 “Books of the Century” by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how tracking—the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability—reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition, Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and a new final chapter in which she discusses the “tracking wars” of the last twenty years, wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. From reviews of the first edition:“Should be read by anyone who wishes to improve schools.”—M. Donald Thomas, American School Board Journal“[This] engaging [book] . . . has had an influence on educational thought and policy that few works of social science ever achieve.”—Tom Loveless in The Tracking Wars“Should be read by teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents.”—Georgia Lewis, Childhood Education“Valuable. . . . No one interested in the topic can afford not to attend to it.”—Kenneth A. Strike, Teachers College Record
Download or read book Combat Tracking Guide written by John Hurth and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on tracking in a combat situation that includes suggestions for integrating visual tracking operations into existing military doctrine in addition to the boots-on-the-ground detail necessary for soldiers who perform those operations How to visually track an armed individual or group in a combat situation for the purposes of gaining intelligence, locating the enemy, and/or killing them Packed with photographs and carefully crafted diagrams A functional, readable manual for soldiers, trackers, military organizations, affiliates, and enthusiasts around the world
Download or read book In the Track of the Troops written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tracker s Way written by Mark E Sexton and published by Vista Tracking. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tracker's Way: Ancient Art and Modern Applications A guide to identifying, interpreting, and following human track and sign. Modern Techniques to an Ancient Skill The unique techniques described in this book outline a system of tracking training that is based on our inherent perception. This book covers all the basics of tracking and more. These basics range from the specific indicators to look for, to how to systematically track another human being. A manual to learn how to detect footprints and intent. Inside you will find tracking information you can use to learn the art of observing, understanding, and knowing the environment in which you live and work. These techniques can be applied to military, law enforcement, and search and rescue. This book is a definitive guide to learn the art of tracking for military, law enforcement, and search and rescue. Inside you will find many techniques and methods unique to his style of tracking learned from years of instruction and practice in the field.
Download or read book The Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War written by Ronald A. Mosocco and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions of the War Department Board of Contract Adjustments written by United States War Department. Claims Board and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SAS Tracking Handbook written by Barry Davies and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking originated with man’s need for food; he needed to understand what he was following and what the rewards would be if he was successful. Little has changed over time about the terms of tracking. We still track game for sport and food, but we have also found other uses for tracking. Border police patrol to stop illegal immigrants from entering their country; the military tracks down wanted terrorists or enemy forces. Tracking has become a military skill. In the SAS Tracking Handbook, former SAS soldier and British Empire Medal (BEM) award–winner Barry Davies teaches not only how to survive in the outdoors with the skills of tracking, but how to use these skills from a military standpoint. Included in this book are many helpful tips on topics including: The types of dogs used for tracking. Traps for catching wild animals. Modern military tracking. Using your surroundings to your advantage. And much more. The success or failure of the modern tracker is dependent on the personal skills of the individual tracker. Training is vital in learning tracking skills, and continuous exercise the best way to interpret signs. These skills are rarely found, but they remain hidden deep within all of us. So whether you’re already a skilled tracker or a novice in the field, the SAS Tracking Handbook will be your guide to mastering this old and respected art.
Download or read book The Challenge of Detracking written by James A. Bellanca and published by Skylight Professional Development. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that in practice, educational research highlighting the negative effects of tracking and ability grouping is often ignored, this book examines the implications of tracking and presents alternatives to this instructional policy. Divided into four sections, the chapters discuss tracking as a systematic barrier to all children, explore the research on the effects of tracking, discuss the implications of tracking in regard to gifted students, and describe programs that work without tracking or ability grouping. The chapters are: (1) "Tracking and Ability Grouping: A Structural Barrier to Access and Achievement" (J. Oakes and M. Lipton); (2)"The Tracking Wars: Is Anyone Winning?" (A. Steinberg); (3) "Keeping Track, Part 1: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Equality" (J. Oakes); (4) "Keeping Track, Part 2: Curriculum Inequality and School Reform" (J. Oakes); (5) "Achievement Effects of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: A Best-Evidence Synthesis" (R. Slavin); (6) "Tracking: Implications for Student Race-Ethnic Subgroups" (J. Braddock); (7) "Classroom Opportunities: Curriculum Goals and Instruction" (J. Oakes with others); (8) "On the Wrong Track?" (D. Gursky), on the civil rights aspects of tracking; (9) "Are Cooperative Learning and 'Untracking' Harmful to the Gifted?" (R. Slavin); (10) ""What To Say to People Concerned with the Education of High Ability and Gifted Students" (D. Johnson and R. Johnson); (11) "After Tracking--What?: Middle Schools Find New Answers" (A. Steinberg and A. Wheelock); (12) "Detracking Schools: Early Lessons from the Field" (J. Oakes and M. Lipton); (13) "Research Identifies Effective Programs for Students at Risk of School Failure" (Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools); and (14) "What's the Truth about Tracking and Ability Grouping Really?: An Explanation for Teachers and Parents" (P. George). (HTH)
Download or read book The Butcher s Trail written by Julian Borger and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how the perpetrators of Balkan war crimes were captured by the most successful manhunt in history Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher’s Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić—both now on trial in The Hague—were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war. Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence officials, and investigators from a dozen countries—most speaking about their involvement for the first time—this book reconstructs a fourteen-year manhunt carried out almost entirely in secret. Indicting the worst war criminals that Europe had known since the Nazi era, the ICTY ultimately accounted for all 161 suspects on its wanted list, a feat never before achieved in political and military history.
Download or read book American Consul in a Cretan War written by William James Stillman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American military engineers. 1935" inserted in v. 27.
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