Oakes, "Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route"

• Education in America past comparing it with our present education
• organization setting standards
• curriculum
• poverty
• Standardized testing

Oakes and Lipton's article address many issues in education. Throughout most of the article Oakes and Lipton refer to the education in America's past comparing it with our present education. The article for m;e was a bit difficult to read since it jumped to different topics at times. However, it allowed me to look at eductation from a different perspective, because I looked at it as seeing what could be improved and what is better for the students.

Children in schools are measured through testing. Standardized testing provides statistics to show how schools are progressing. This is the most efficient way in which this can be measured, however i believe that grades should also be looked at since testing is difficult and stressful to some students. Many schools that do not score well and are labeled as not progressing are taken over by the state.It is important to raise test scores in schools. "Schools were told that they must find new ways to raise tests scores and improve students' achievements, and were also told that their poor students and students of color must do better, but progrtams desighned to help them were cut back."

This article also mentions our past of segregation and the "white flight". Schools however have modernized and segregation is no longer really seen. Students of all color attend school and measures to enforce diversity must be taken into consideration. Overall, the article touches upon many issues in education from our past to our future.