@article{Gillis_2018, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Class School Board Debate Activity: Should Tracking Be Reformed?}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/class-school-board-debate-activity-should-tracking}, abstractNote={This in-class activity is designed to simulate a school board debate to allow students to understand the differing perspectives about the school tracking debate. In this activity, the students will be broken up into small groups and given an assigned role. The students will be required to give a short speech in front of the class, arguing from their assigned perspective how the tracking system in their school system should be reformed (if at all). Then the students assigned to the school board will make a decision as a committee as to whether they will reform the tracking system, and if so how, based on political constraints. Finally, the instructor facilitates a full class discussion about tracking, social class, political power, and the implications for inequality and reform. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Gillis, Alanna}, year={2018}, month={Apr.} }