How Does Tracking Limit Social Mobility

question 89

Multiple Choice

How does tracking limit social mobility?

• A)It allows lower-tracked students to achieve.
• B)It locks students in lower tracks into a path early on.
• C)It limits the ability of higher-tracked students to achieve.
• D)Tracking is used to keep only remedial students in lower tracks.

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