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13737
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3765
National Ranking
1797

Overview

Jeannie Oakes is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research contributions include publications in academic venues with a focus on education and related fields.

Among their recent scholarly work is the paper titled Contents, published in 2020 by Stanford University Press eBooks. This publication is documented with citations as part of their ongoing academic record.

Jeannie Oakes has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, indicating a pattern of joint research efforts. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Wendy D. Puriefoy
  • Lauren Wells
  • Jean Anyon
  • Dennis Shirley
  • Jeffrey R. Henig

Their work appears predominantly in the venue Stanford University Press eBooks, confirming a specialized outlet for their publications. The research output documented here highlights a focus consistent with contributions to educational literature and policy studies.

Best Publications

  • Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Multiplying Inequalities: The Effects of Race, Social Class, and Tracking on Opportunities to Learn Mathematics and Science

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  • Chapter 3: Opportunities, Achievement, and Choice: Women and Minority Students in Science and Mathematics:

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform

    Jeannie Oakes;Karen Hunter Quartz;Steve Ryan;Martin Lipton

  • Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform

    Jeannie Oakes;Amy Wells;Makeba Jones;Amanda Datnow

  • Teaching to Change the World

    Jeannie Oakes;Martin Lipton;Lauren Anderson;Jamy Stillman

  • Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions

    Jeannie Oakes;Gretchen Guiton

  • Can Tracking Research Inform Practice? Technical, Normative, and Political Considerations

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Research for High-Quality Urban Teaching: Defining it, Developing it, Assessing it

    Jeannie Oakes;Megan Loef Franke;Karen Hunter Quartz;John Rogers

  • Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

    Kevin Grant Welner;Jeannie Oakes;Martin Lipton

  • Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation.

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Bounding the Case Within Its Context: A Constructivist Approach to Studying Detracking Reform

    Amy Stuart Wells;Diane Hirshberg;Martin Lipton;Jeannie Oakes

  • Tracking in Secondary Schools : A Contextual Perspective

    Jeannie Oakes

  • What Educational Indicators? The Case for Assessing the School Context

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  • (Li)Ability Grouping: The New Susceptibility of School Tracking Systems to Legal Challenges.

    Kevin G. Welner;Jeannie Oakes

  • Norms and Politics of Equity-Minded Change: Researching the “Zone of Mediation”

    Jeannie Oakes;Kevin Welner;Susan Yonezawa;Ricky Lee Allen

  • Tracking, Inequality, and the Rhetoric of Reform: Why Schools Don't Change:

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Keeping Track, Part 1: The Policy and Practice Of Curriculum Inequality

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Opportunity to Learn and Conceptions of Educational Equality

    Gretchen Guiton;Jeannie Oakes

  • Creating Middle Schools: Technical, Normative, and Political Considerations

    Jeannie Oakes;Karen Hunter Quartz;Jennifer Gong;Gretchen Guiton

  • Keeping Track: Structuring Equality and Inequality in an Era of Accountability

    Jeannie Oakes

  • Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.

    Nancy L. Arnez;Jeannie Oakes

  • Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice: An Essay Review of Learning to Liberate.

    Jeannie Oakes;John Rogers;Martin Lipton

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