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. 

Education - CPI Research

Title Author Media
Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States Solon, Gary

Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

Author: Solon, Gary
Publisher: American Economic Review
Date: 06/1992
Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement Angrist, Joshua and Victor Lavy

Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement

Author: Angrist, Joshua and Victor Lavy
Publisher: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Date:
Diverging Destinies: How Children are Faring under the Second Demographic Transition Sara McLanahan

Diverging Destinies: How Children are Faring under the Second Demographic Transition

Author: Sara McLanahan
Publisher: Demography
Date:
What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas? Larry M. Bartels

What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?

Author: Larry M. Bartels
Publisher: Journal of Political Science
Date:
How Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? Duncan, Greg J., Jean W. Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

How Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?

Author: Duncan, Greg J., Jean W. Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Publisher: American Sociological Review
Date:

education - CPI Affiliates

David H. Autor Ford Professor of Economics, Director of National Bureau of Economic Research Disability Research Center; Co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Olneck's picture Michael Olneck Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eamonn Callan's picture Eamonn Callan Pigott Family School of Education Professor, Emeritus
Stanford University
Michele Lamont Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Elizabeth Frankenberg Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy; Professor in the Department of Economics; Professor in the Department of Sociology
Duke University

Pages

Education - Other Research

Title Author Media
Class, Status, Party Max Weber

Class, Status, Party

Author: Max Weber
Publisher: Routledge
Date:
The Making of the New English Working Class E.P. Thompson

The Making of the New English Working Class

Author: E.P. Thompson
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date:
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men Patricia A. McManus and Thomas A. DiPrete

Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men

Author: Patricia A. McManus and Thomas A. DiPrete
Publisher: American Sociological Review
Date:
Class counts: comparative studies in class analysis Erik Olin Wright

Class counts: comparative studies in class analysis

Author: Erik Olin Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date:
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare Easterlin, Richard

Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare

Author: Easterlin, Richard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date:

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