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Susan L. Dauber, Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Tracking and Transitions through the Middle Grades: Channeling Educational Trajectories, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 290-307
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