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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Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family Structure | Kelly Musick, Robert D. Mare |
Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family StructureAuthor: Kelly Musick, Robert D. MarePublisher: Social Science Research Date: 01/2004 |
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Black Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and the Conflict of Schooling for Low-Income African American Youth | Prudence. L. Carter |
Black Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and the Conflict of Schooling for Low-Income African American YouthAuthor: Prudence. L. CarterPublisher: Date: 01/2003 |
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule Flexibility | Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S Krause |
The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule FlexibilityAuthor: Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S KrausePublisher: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Date: 01/2003 |
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Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others? | Kim A. Weeden |
Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others?Author: Kim A. WeedenPublisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: 07/2002 |
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The Dynamics of Childhood Poverty | Corcoran, Mary E., Ajay Chaudry |
The Dynamics of Childhood PovertyAuthor: Corcoran, Mary E., Ajay ChaudryPublisher: The Future of Children Date: 09/1997 |
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education - CPI Affiliates
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Ann Dryden Witte |
Professor Emerita of Economics |
Wellesley College |
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Paul Peterson |
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; Senior Editor of Education Next |
Harvard University |
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Hans-Peter Blossfeld |
Professor of Sociology |
Bamberg University |
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Peter T. Gottschalk |
Research Professor of Economics; Research Fellow, IZA |
Boston College |
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Hiroshi Ishida |
Professor of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences |
University of Tokyo |
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Education - Other Research
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The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance, and Cinema Attendance | Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe |
The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance, and Cinema AttendanceAuthor: Tak Wing Chan and John H. GoldthorpePublisher: Routledge Date: In current sociological literature the relationship between social inequality and patterns of cultural taste and consumption is the subject of a large and complex debate. In this paper the primary aim is to examine, in the light of empirical results from a research project in which the authors are presently engaged, three main, and rival, positions that have been taken up in this debate, here labelled as the ‘homology', the ‘individualization' and the ‘omnivore–univore' arguments. Elsewhere, we have concentrated on musical consumption in England, and find evidence that is broadly supportive of the omnivore–univore argument. Here we ask whether such findings are confirmed in the case of theatre, dance and cinema attendance. A secondary aim of the paper is to bring to the attention of practitioners in the field of cultural policy and administration the need to address the issues that arise through the use of more powerful methods of data analysis than those often applied in the past. We explain how indicators of theatre, dance and cinema attendance derived from the Arts in England survey of 2001 can be subject to analysis so as to reveal two distinctive patterns of attendance and, in turn, two distinctive types of consumer—who can, it turns out, be regarded as omnivores and univores, even if with some qualification. The former have relatively high rates of attendance at all kinds of the events covered, including musicals and pantomimes as well as plays and ballet, while the latter tend to be cinema-goers only, that is, non-consumers of theatre and dance. A range of measures of social inequality are then introduced into the authors' analyses, including separate measures of social class and social status and also of educational level and income, and it is further shown that, again in conformity with the omnivore–univore argument, these two types of consumer are socially stratified. Omnivores are of generally higher social status than univores and also have usually higher levels of education and higher income than do univores (the latter finding marking the main difference with musical consumption, which was unaffected by income once other stratification variables were controlled). In sum, our results for theatre, dance and cinema attendance lend, overall, further support to the omnivore–univore argument as against its rivals, but also indicate that different aspects of social inequality impact on different forms of cultural consumption in varying degrees and probably through largely separate processes. |
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Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class | Michele Lamont |
Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle ClassAuthor: Michele LamontPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Date: |
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The Division of Labor in Society | Emile Durkheim | ||
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality | Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson |
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender InequalityAuthor: Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen GersonPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism | Nicos Poulantzas |
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