Authors: Benson, James, & Borman, Geoffrey
School & neighborhood contexts influence on differences in children's achievement growth during the kindergarten and first-grade years across seasons.
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2) 2010 - Family, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?
Authors: Benson, James, & Borman, Geoffrey
Assess the degree to which social context and race/ethnic composition- in neighborhoods and schools- affect the reading achievement growth of…
3) 2010 - Increasing Racial Isolation and Test Score Gaps in Mathematics
Authors: Berends, Mark
Analyze associations between the black-white and Latino-white test score gaps and changes in school minority composition.
4) 2010 - Schools and Inequality: A Multilevel Analysis of Coleman's Equality of Educational Opportunity Data
Authors: Borman, Geoffrey, & Dowling, Maritza
Reanalysis and reconceptualization of the Coleman report through a 2-level hierarchical linear model.
8) 2010 - An Organizational Perspective on the Origins of Instructional Segregation: School Composition and Use of Within-Class Ability Grouping in American Kindergartens
Authors: Buttaro, Anthony, Catsambis, Sophia, Mulkey, Lynn, & Steelman, Lala
Investigate the degree to which racial and ethnic composition of schools is associated with use of ability grouping practices as…
9) 2010 - Race and Cultural Flexibility Among Students in Different Multiracial Schools
Authors: Carter, Prudence
Examine the difference in cultural flexibility between black and white students enrolled in schools with different racial and ethnic compositions.
11) 2010 - Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School. A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
Authors: Clotfelter, Charles T., Ladd, Helen, & Vigdor, Jacob
Examining the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement in high schools, especially in the core courses taken early in…
12) 2010 - Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program
Authors: DeLuca, Stefanie, & Rosenblatt, Peter
Understand why the children of families who participated in the Baltimore MTO program did not experience larger gains in achievement.
13) 2010 - Classroom Peer Effects, Effort, and Race
Authors: Edelman, Brent M.
Develops a theoretical model of educational peer effects and then empiracally tests whether or not they exist.
16) 2010 - Equity in Mathematics and Science Outcomes: Characteristics Associated with High and Low Achievement on PISA 2006 in Ireland
Authors: Gilleece, Lorraine, Cosgrove, Jude, & Sofroniou, Nick
Examines student and school background characteristics associated with low and high achievement in mathematics and science on the Programme for…
17) 2010 - Learning Apart, Living Apart: The Lasting Impact of Perpetual Segregation
Authors: Goldsmith, Pat Rubio
Extent to which neighborhoods' % white is replicated across generations & the extent to which HS' & colleges' percent white…
18) 2010 - Persistence of Women and Minorities in STEM Field Majors: Is it the School that Matters?
Authors: Griffith, Amanda L.
Which factors contribute to persistence of all students in STEM field majors, and in particular the persistence of women and…
19) 2010 - How Do School Peers Influence Student Educational Outcomes? Theory and Evidence from Economics and Other Social Sciences
Authors: Harris, Douglas
Provide a description of a wide range of peer influence theories from psychologists, sociologists, and economists; proposes new theory of…
20) 2010 - School Composition and Context Factors that Moderate and Predict 10th-Grade Science Proficiency
Authors: Hogrebe, Mark & Tate, William
Examine the relationship between 10th grade science proficiency and school context factors related to school environment, courses, and teachers.
21) 2010 - A Crisis of Authority in Predominantly Black Schools?
Authors: Kelly, Sean
Analyze reports of problem behavior from teachers and administrators and see if they differ from those in integrated and non-Black…
22) 2010 - The Social Cost of Open Enrollment as a School Choice Policy
Authors: Koedel, Cory, Betts, Julian R., Rice, Lorien A., & Zau, Andrew C.
Evaluates the effects of three San Diego, California school choice programs on integration by race, student achievement and parental education…
23) 2010 - Who succeeds in STEM studies? An analysis of Binghamton University undergraduate students
Authors: Kokkelenberg, Edward C., & Sinha, Esha
Who is more likely to enter and graduate with a STEM major?
24) 2010 - Student and School Predictors of High-Stakes Assessment in Science
Authors: Maerten-Rivera, Jaime, Myers, Nicholas, Lee, Okhee, & Penfield, Randall
This study examined both student and school predictors of science achievement as measured by a high-stakes state test.
25) 2010 - Perceived School and Neighborhood Safety, Neighborhood Violence and Academic Achievement in Urban School Children
Authors: Milam, Adam J., & Furr-Holden, Debra
This study utilizes data obtained from the NIfETy Method, child self-report data related to students' sense of safety, and standardized…
26) 2010 - Schools Without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification of the American School System
Authors: Miron, Gary, Urschel, Jessica L., Mathis, William J., & Tornquist, Elana
The study explores whether these EMO-operated charter schools integrate or segregate students by four key demographic characteristics: ethnic/minority classification, socioeconomic…
27) 2010 - Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools
Authors: Muller, Chandra, Riegle-Crumb, Catherine, Schiller, Kathryn S., Wilkinson, Lindsey, & Frank, Kenneth A.
The authors investigate whether racially diverse high schools offer equality of educational opportunity to students from different racial and ethnic…
28) 2010 - End of High School Mathematics Attainment: How Did Students Get There?
Authors: Newton, Xiaoxia
Explored various kinds of individual and school compositional factors that might produce differences in students' growth in math and eohs…
29) 2010 - The Sorting Effect of Charter Schools on Student Composition in Traditional Public Schools
Authors: Ni, Yongmei
This article investigates how Michigan's charter school policy influences the composition of students by race and socioeconomic status in urban…
30) 2010 - The Role of Peers and Grades in Determining Major Persistence in the Sciences
Authors: Ost, Ben
This paper examines the determinants of entering and then persisting in physical and life science majors. Also, it investigates the…
31) 2010 - Neighborhoods and Schools as Competing and Reinforcing Contexts for Educational Attainment
Authors: Owens, Ann
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author analyzes how school and neighborhood contexts are jointly…
32) 2010 - Does the SES of the School Matter? An Examination of Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement Using PISA 2003
Authors: Perry, Laura B., & McConney, Andrew
The relationship between school SES and student outcomes.
33) 2010 - The effect of instructor race and gender on student persistence in STEM fields
Authors: Price, Joshua
To see if the race or gender of the instructor effects persistence of initial STEM majors in a STEM field…
34) 2010 - Attrition in STEM Fields at a Liberal Arts College: The Importance of Grades and Pre-Collegiate Preferences
Authors: Rask, Kevin
To quantify the important factors responsible for the high attrition rates in STEM majors, particularly in relation to gender.
37) 2010 - The Hidden Value of School Desegregation: Disentangling School- and Student-Level Effects of Desegregation and Resegregation on the Dropout Problem in Urban High Schools: Evidence from the Cleveland Municipal School District, 1977-1998
Authors: Saatcioglu, Argun
Examines the effect of racial desegregation on promoting power of urban high schools.
38) 2010 - International Evidence on Ability Grouping with Curriculum Differentiation and the Achievement Gap in Secondary Schools
Authors: Schofield, Janet Ward
Review what research from other developed countries says regarding: ability grouping and achievement, achievement gap, etc.
39) 2010 - Housing Policy is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery Count, Maryland
Authors: Schwartz, Heather
Examination of elementary school math and reading performances of public housing students from very-low-poverty to moderate-poverty level neighborhoods to determine…
40) 2010 - School Choice and Segregation: Evidence from an Admission Reform
Authors: Soderstrom, Martin, & Uusitalo, Roope
Evaluates the effects of school choice on segregation using data from an admission reform in the Stockholm upper secondary schools.
41) 2010 - Examining the Effects of School Composition on North Carolina Student Achievement Over Time
Authors: Southworth, Stephanie
Analyze the effects of school level inputs (including school racial and poverty composition) on North Carolina students' reading and math…
42) 2010 - Long-Term Correlates of High School Racial Composition: Perpetuation Theory Re-Examined
Authors: Stearns, Elizabeth
Examine long-term influences of high school racial composition on students' later racial isolation in the workplace in 1994 & 2000.
43) 2010 - ADHD-Related School Compositional Effects: An Exploration
Authors: Stone, Susan, Brown, Timothy, & Hinshaw, Stephen
Examines variation in ADHD compositional effects as a function of key school factors on reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and teacher-reported…
44) 2010 - Measuring Multi-Ethnic Desegregation
Authors: Straus, Ryane McAuliffe
This article proposes a new method for measuring school desegregation in multiracial districts, and uses the new method to measure…
45) 2010 - The Role of Schools, Families, and Psychological Variables on Math Achievement of Black High School Students
Authors: Strayhorn, Terrell L.
What is the impact of school-, family-, and person-level affective or social psychological variables on math achievement for a nationally…
46) 2010 - The Role of Schools, Families, and Psychological Variables on Math Achievement of Black High School Students.
Authors: Strayhorn, Terrell L.
What is the impact of school-, family-, and person-level affective or social psychological variables on math achievement for a nationally…
47) 2010 - Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth
Authors: Suàrez-Orozco, Carola, Gaytàn, Francisco X., Bang, Hee J., Pakes, Juliana, O'Connor, Erin, & Rhodes, Jean
How do family characteristics, school characteristics, and individual characteristics associated with the academic trajectory of newcomer immigrant students affect their…
48) 2010 - Social Reproduction of Inequality: The Racial Composition of Feeder Schools to the University of California
Authors: Teranishi, Robert, & Parker, Tara
The extent to which there is unevenness in the rate at which individual UC campuses enroll first-time freshmen from HS…
49) 2010 - Examining the STEM Educational Pipeline: The Influence of Pre-College Factors on the Educational Trajectory of African American students
Authors: Tyler, Andrea L.
1) What pre-college factors predict African-American students' decision to engage in post-secondary education? 2) What pre-college factors predict African-American students'…
50) 2010 - What do we know about explanations for dropout/opt out among young people from STM higher education programmes?
Authors: Ulriksen, Lars, Møller Madsen, Lene, & Holmegaard, Henriette T.
To explore whether research on retention and non-completion in higher education, and in STM programmes in particular, has produced findings…