Education
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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.
Featured Examples
Education - CPI Research
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| Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States | Solon, Gary |
Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United StatesAuthor: Solon, GaryPublisher: American Economic Review Date: 06/1992 |
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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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| Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools | Samuel Roundfield Lucas |
Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High SchoolsAuthor: Samuel Roundfield LucasPublisher: Teachers College Press Date: |
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| From Class to Culture | Michael Hechter | ||
| 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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education - CPI Affiliates
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Rachel Lotan |
Emeritus Professor of Education (Teaching) |
Stanford University |
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Janet Currie |
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Chair, Department of Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Director, Center for Health and Well Being |
Princeton University |
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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 |
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Reinhard Pollak |
Head of the National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning, Social Science Research Center; Professor of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin |
Freie Universität Berlin |
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Daron Acemoglu |
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Education - Other Research
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| The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification | Randall Collins |
The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and StratificationAuthor: Randall CollinsPublisher: Academic Press Date: |
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| The American Occupational Structure | Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the... |
The American Occupational StructureAuthor: Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the...Publisher: Free Press Date: The objective of this book is to present a systematic analysis of the American occupational structure, and, thus, of the major foundation of the stratification system in this society. Processes of social mobility from one generation to the next and from career beginnings to occupational destinations are considered to reflect the dynamics of the occupational structure. By analyzing the patterns of these occupational movements, the conditions that affect them, and some of their consequences, one attempts to explain part of the dynamics of the stratification system in the United States. The inquiry is based on a considerable amount of empirical data collected from a representative sample of over 20,000 American men between the ages of 20 and 64. The survey of "Occupational Changes in a Generation" was carried out as an adjunct to the monthly "Current Population Survey" of the Bureau of the Census. The analysis of the data collected in the survey constitutes the bulk of the material reported in the present book, although occasionally other sources are drawn on as well. As the comparative data from a variety of societies needed for refining the theory of stratification are not available in this study, it has been supplemented with data from mobility surveys of other countries. |
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| The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002 | Chang Kim, Hwan and Arthur Sakamoto |
The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002Author: Chang Kim, Hwan and Arthur SakamotoPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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| The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies | Anthony Giddens |
The Class Structure of the Advanced SocietiesAuthor: Anthony GiddensPublisher: Hutchinson & Co. Date: |
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| The System of Professions | Andrew Abbott |
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