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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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 StudentsAuthor: DiMaggio, PaulPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Capital for College: Parental Assets and Postsecondary Schooling | Dalton Conley |
Capital for College: Parental Assets and Postsecondary SchoolingAuthor: Dalton ConleyPublisher: Date: |
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Socioeconomic Background and Achievement | Duncan Otis D., David L. Featherman and Beverly... |
Socioeconomic Background and AchievementAuthor: Duncan Otis D., David L. Featherman and Beverly...Publisher: New York: Seminar Press Date: |
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Children of Immigration | Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco |
Children of ImmigrationAuthor: Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-OrozcoPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: 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. |
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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 EffectsAuthor: Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. SorensenPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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education - CPI Affiliates
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Lance Lochner |
Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Canada |
The University of Western Ontario |
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Francis A. Pearman |
Assistant Professor of Education |
Stanford University |
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Linda Darling-Hammond |
Charles Ducommon Emeritus Professor of Education; Co-Director, School Redesign Network (SRN) |
Stanford University |
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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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