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Note: Percentage distribution of 12th-grade students across NAEP economics achievement levels,
by highest level of parental education, 2006.
Source: Planty et al. 2008: 25. © Copyright 2009 McGraw Hill 18
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Education and Inequality
• Bestowal of Status
– Schools can reinforce class differences by
putting students in tracks
– Tracking: the practice of placing students in
specific curriculum groups on the basis of
their test scores and other criteria
• Can reinforce disadvantages children from
lower-class families already may face
• Recent research has shown that tracking does
not necessarily identify potential successful
students