Education
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.
Featured Examples
Education - CPI Research
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | Kozol, Jonathan | ||
Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis | Aage B. Sørensen |
Toward a Sounder Basis for Class AnalysisAuthor: Aage B. SørensenPublisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: |
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Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education | Lareau, Annette |
Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary EducationAuthor: Lareau, AnnettePublisher: The Falmer Press Date: |
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Economic Considerations and Class Size | Alan B. Krueger | ||
Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory | Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe |
Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action TheoryAuthor: Richard Breen and John H. GoldthorpePublisher: Date: |
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education - CPI Affiliates
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Lisa Lynch |
Provost and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research |
Brandeis University |
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Luis Fraga |
Chair, Department of Political Science; Co-Director, Institute for Latino Studies; Notre Dame Professor in Transformative Latino Leadership; Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science; Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives |
University of Notre Dame |
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Mariah Debra Ruperti Evans |
Professor of Sociology |
University of Nevada, Reno |
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Mario Luis Small |
Grafstein Family Professor, Department of Sociology |
Harvard University |
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Martin Benavides |
Senior Researcher |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Education - Other Research
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