"Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the annual Brown Center Reports on American Education."

"...an original and important perspective on tracking....clear theory, well grounded in research and knowledge of the field; solid and suggestive data from a variety of cources; and, a special gift in this field, clear, jargon-free writing. This book will be a durable contribution to the literature on tracking, as well as to the broader literature on how to do research on the reciprocal relationship between policies and complex institutions." —Richard Elmore, Harvard University

"Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the annual Brown Center Reports on American Education."

"...an original and important perspective on tracking....clear theory, well grounded in research and knowledge of the field; solid and suggestive data from a variety of cources; and, a special gift in this field, clear, jargon-free writing. This book will be a durable contribution to the literature on tracking, as well as to the broader literature on how to do research on the reciprocal relationship between policies and complex institutions." —Richard Elmore, Harvard University

"Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the annual Brown Center Reports on American Education."

"...an original and important perspective on tracking....clear theory, well grounded in research and knowledge of the field; solid and suggestive data from a variety of cources; and, a special gift in this field, clear, jargon-free writing. This book will be a durable contribution to the literature on tracking, as well as to the broader literature on how to do research on the reciprocal relationship between policies and complex institutions." —Richard Elmore, Harvard University