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

Joy Ann Williamson's picture Joy Ann Williamson Professor, History of Education; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
University of Washington, College of Education
Ann Dryden Witte's picture Ann Dryden Witte Professor Emerita of Economics
Wellesley College
Christine Min Wotipka's picture Christine Min Wotipka Director, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor (Teaching); Director, Master’s Program in International Comparative Education and International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis
Stanford University
Kazuo Yamaguchi's picture Kazuo Yamaguchi Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, The Center for East Asian Studies
University of Chicago

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