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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| Determined to Succeed? Performance versus Choice in Educational Attainment | Michelle Jackson |
Determined to Succeed? Performance versus Choice in Educational AttainmentAuthor: Michelle JacksonPublisher: Stanford University Press Date: 01/2013 In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in performance. But is this presumption correct? Determined to Succeed? is the first book to offer a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups, and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and parental education. |
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| Determined to Succeed? Performance Versus Choice in Educational Attainment | Michelle Jackson |
Determined to Succeed? Performance Versus Choice in Educational AttainmentAuthor: Michelle JacksonPublisher: Stanford University Press Date: 01/2013 In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in performance. But is this presumption correct? Determined to Succeed? is the first book to offer a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups, and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and parental education. |
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| Family, the Lifecourse, and the Great Recession | S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, Christopher Wimer |
Family, the Lifecourse, and the Great RecessionAuthor: S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, Christopher WimerPublisher: Date: 10/2012 The family is an important setting within which the Great Recession can exert its influence. Although the downturn directly affected many workers by reducing their earnings or forcing them into unemployment, it affected others indirectly by changing their living arrangements or family life. Further, the ways in which families are formed or broken up may be affected by the Great Recession, as it can alter the perceived costs and benefits of various family-relevant behaviors. Amid the turmoil and economic upheaval in the wider economy, individuals and families go about their lives, deciding to get married, suffering through breakups and divorces, planning families, and sorting out their living arrangements. The recession could have major effects on all of these family processes. |
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| The Economic Returns to Higher Education in the BRIC Countries and Their Implications for Higher Education Expansion | Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Greg V. Androuschchak, Anna Proudnikova |
The Economic Returns to Higher Education in the BRIC Countries and Their Implications for Higher Education ExpansionAuthor: Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Greg V. Androuschchak, Anna ProudnikovaPublisher: Date: 01/2012 This paper focuses on the changing economic value of secondary and higher education in four potential world economic powerhouses - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - known as the BRIC countries. We show that in the past twenty-five years in the BRIC countries, changes in rates of return to higher education have not conformed to the diminishing returns to capital theory, which says that rates decline with level of education and that this pattern holds as countries develop economically and educationally. The rates to university completion have generally risen relative to the rates to investment in lower levels of education, and in all but India are now higher than the payoff to secondary schooling. We argue that this reflects the rapid economic change in all four countries, including their incorporation into the global economy, and, in Russia and China, the transformation from command to increasingly market economies. |
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| Ethnic Inequality in Choice-Driven Education Systems | Michelle Jackson, Jan O. Jonsson, Frida Rudolphi |
Ethnic Inequality in Choice-Driven Education SystemsAuthor: Michelle Jackson, Jan O. Jonsson, Frida RudolphiPublisher: Date: 11/2011 |
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education - CPI Affiliates
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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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Jeffrey Henig |
Professor of Political Science and Education; Politics & Education Program Director |
Columbia University |
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Daron Acemoglu |
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Richard J. Murnane |
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research |
Harvard University |
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Education - Other Research
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| Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America | Jencks, Christopher, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland... |
Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in AmericaAuthor: Jencks, Christopher, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland...Publisher: Date: 10/1972 |
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| Are You Sure You’re Saving Enough for Retirement? | Jonathan Skinner |
Are You Sure You’re Saving Enough for Retirement?Author: Jonathan SkinnerPublisher: Journal of Economic Perspectives Date: |
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| Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century | Harry Braverman |
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth CenturyAuthor: Harry BravermanPublisher: Monthly Review Press Date: |
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| The Capitalist World-Economy | Wallerstein, Immanuel |
The Capitalist World-EconomyAuthor: Wallerstein, ImmanuelPublisher: Cambridge University Press Date: |
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| Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique | Frank Parkin |
Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois CritiqueAuthor: Frank ParkinPublisher: Columbia University Press Date: *** |
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