How have schools reinforced racial disparities?
a. By tracking students by ability levels
b. By guaranteeing the suspension of students reflects the racial makeup of the student body.
c. By providing supplemental materials to biased textbooks
d. By continuing the racial desegregation trends of the 1970's into the 1990's and beyond
A Correct Answer: By tracking students by ability levels
Feedback for Correct Answer: Students of color tend to be overrepresented in classes for slow learners, underrepresented in accelerated classes, and placed in vocational or remedial classes in disproportionate numbers (Kershaw, 1992; Oakes, 2005; Oakes & Wells, 1996; Oakes et al., 2004).
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