Education

  • Sean Reardon

Leader: Sean Reardon

The purpose of the Education RG is to examine trends in the extent to which educational access and achievement are related to poverty and family background. The scholars working within this RG are examining state-level differences in the effects of social origins, uncovering the causes of the recent rise in the socioeconomic achievement gap, uncovering the causes of the yet more recent turnaround in this rise (among kindergarten children), and examining the ways in which high-achieving children from poor backgrounds can be induced to go to college. The following is a sampling of relevant CPI projects.

Reducing the race gap in test scores: How can the black-white gap in achievement test scores be eliminated? The new Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) will provide the most systematic evidence to date on the capacity of school-district policies to reduce the gap.

Colleges and rising income inequality: Are colleges delivering upward mobility for those raised in poverty? The new “Mobility Report Card” will provide unusually detailed data on this fundamental question.

Poverty and schooling on reservations: The noted ethnographer Martin Sánchez-Jankowski is examining how education on reservations can be reformed to reduce dropout, poverty, and suicide. 

CPI Collaborators

Terry M. Moe's picture Terry M. Moe William Bennett Monroe Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Professor, by courtesy, of Education
Stanford University
Richard J. Murnane's picture Richard J. Murnane Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Harvard University
Nailah Suad Nasir's picture Nailah Suad Nasir Professor of Education; H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies; Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities
University of California, Berkeley
Derek Allen Neal's picture Derek Allen Neal Professor of Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
University of Chicago
Michael Olneck's picture Michael Olneck Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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