“…Table 2B presents the determinants of assignment to an honors, academic, vocationall other, or general tenth grade math class. Following previous research [Sorensen, 1987;Garet and Delaney, 1988;Gamoran and Mare, 1989;Lucas and Gamoran, 19931 we model track placement as a function of prior (eighth grade) achievement, and student characteristics such as racelethnicity, and socioeconomic status." In addition, we include school characteristics, and, in some specifications, eighth grade track assignment as explanatory variables.…”