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. 

Education - CPI Research

Title Author Media
Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students DiMaggio, Paul

Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students

Author: DiMaggio, Paul
Publisher: American Sociological Review
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Capital for College: Parental Assets and Postsecondary Schooling Dalton Conley

Capital for College: Parental Assets and Postsecondary Schooling

Author: Dalton Conley
Publisher:
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Socioeconomic Background and Achievement Duncan Otis D., David L. Featherman and Beverly...

Socioeconomic Background and Achievement

Author: Duncan Otis D., David L. Featherman and Beverly...
Publisher: New York: Seminar Press
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Children of Immigration Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

Children of Immigration

Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, co-directors of the Harvard Immigration Project, have spent two decades researching and studying immigration. The result of their work and experiences, this book addresses how immigrant children fare in America. One fifth of all school-age children in America are children of immigrants (in New York City, the rate is 48 percent), and they speak over 100 languages. What thought has American society given to the special needs of these students? Have we done anything to accommodate them? What have they experienced? The answers to these and many other questions are woven together with moving accounts of immigrant children.

Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman's Social Capital Explanation of School Effects Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sorensen

Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman's Social Capital Explanation of School Effects

Author: Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sorensen
Publisher: American Sociological Review
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education - CPI Affiliates

Lance Lochner Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Canada
The University of Western Ontario
Francis A. Pearman Assistant Professor of Education
Stanford University
Linda Darling-Hammond's picture Linda Darling-Hammond Charles Ducommon Emeritus Professor of Education; Co-Director, School Redesign Network (SRN)
Stanford University
Lisa Lynch's picture 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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