Authors: Van Ewijk, Reyn, & Sleegers, Peter
Examine the nature and size of the effect of peer SES on student achievement.
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3) 2010 - School Ethnic Composition and Aspirations of Immigrant Students in Belgium
Authors: Van Houtte, Mieke, & Stevens, Peter A.J.
The authors seek to examine whether Flemish ethnic concentration in secondary schools has the detrimental effects on immigrant students' performance…
4) 2010 - Children of Immigrants and Educational Expectations: The Roles of School Composition
Authors: Wells, Ryan
Understanding the educational processes of children of immigrant specifically, and all students more broadly, as the immigrant population grows in…
5) 2010 - Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity
Authors: Welner, Kevin G.
Explores the normative and political difficulties experienced by racially diverse schools that are implementing detracking reform.
6) 2010 - Academic Success for STEM and Non-STEM Majors
Authors: Whalen, Donald F., Shelley, Mack C., & II,
1) What background characteristics, ability measures, financial support systems, and academic support mechanisms help explain retention and/or graduation for students…
7) 2010 - School Composition and Contextual Effects on Student Outcomes
Authors: Willms, Douglas
This study examines the relationships among school composition, several aspects of school and classroom context, and students’ literacy skills in…
8) 2010 - School Composition and Contextual Effects on Student Outcomes
Authors: Willms, J. Douglas
This study examines the relationships among school composition, several aspects of school and classroom context, and students’ literacy skills in…
9) 2010 - Academic Achievement in the First Year of College: Evidence of the Pervasive Effects of the High School Context
Authors: Wolniak, Gregory C., & Engberg, Mark E.
1) What are the unique effects of students' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, precollege academic performance, capital acquisition, and dimensions of…
10) 2009 - How African American is the Net Black Advantage? Differences in College Attendance Among Immigrant Blacks, Native Blacks, and Whites
Authors: Bennett, Pamela R., & Lutz, Amy
Investigates the reason that black high school graduates are more likely to attend college than white high school graduates, looking…
11) 2009 - Can Interdistrict Choice Boost Student Achievement? The Case of Connecticut's Interdistrict Magnet School Program
Authors: Bifulco, Robert, Cobb, Casey D., & Bell, Courtney
Presents evidence that interdistrict magnet schools have provided students from Connecticut's central cities access to less racially and economically isolated…
12) 2009 - Profiles of Urban, Low SES, African American Girls' Attitudes Toward Science: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Buck, Gayle, Cook, Kristin, Quigley, Cassie, Eastwood, Jennifer, & Lucas, Yvonne
What are the urban, low SES, African American girls' attitudes toward science and science learning? What aspects of their experiences…
13) 2009 - School Choice in a Post-Desegregation World
Authors: Cobb, Casey, & Glass, Gene
Discusses evidence with respect to regulated and unregulated school choice.
14) 2009 - Social Class, School and Non-School Environments, and Black/White Inequalitites in Children's Learning
Authors: Condron, Dennis
How might schools exacerbate black/white disparities in learning while simultaneously slowing the growth of social class gaps?
15) 2009 - Student Characteristics, Pre-College, College, and Environmental Factors as Predictors of Majoring In and Earning a STEM Degree: An Analysis of Students Attending a Hispanic Serving Institution
Authors: Crisp, Gloria, Nora, Amaury, & Taggart, Amanda
1) Are there significant differences/relationships between the characteristics of Hispanic and White students in STEM majors at a Hispanic Serving…
16) 2009 - Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools
Authors: Crosnoe, Robert
Potential problems suggested by the "frog pond" perspective about the effects of socioeconomic desegregation in nonachievement domains.
17) 2009 - Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes
Authors: DeLuca, Stefanie, & Dayton, Elizabeth
Assesses research on the educational and socialoutcomes for comparable youth who change school and neighborhood settings through unique housing policy…
18) 2009 - The Impact of School Choice and Public Policy on Segregation: Evidence from Chile
Authors: Elacqua, Gregory
Examines segregation between schools within a sector and variation within private voucher forprofit and non-profit (religious and secular) school sectors.
20) 2009 - Trust as a Mediator of the Relationships Between Poverty, Racial Composition, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Michigan's Public Elementary Schools
Authors: Goddard, Roger, Salloum, Serena, & Berbitsky, Dan
Test the relationship btw trust and achievement / assess whether links btw academic achievement, SES, racial composition are mediated by…
21) 2009 - Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance
Authors: Goza, Franklin, & Ryabov, Igor
Examines how peer networks impact educational achievement and attainment.
22) 2009 - New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement
Authors: Hanushek, Eric, Kain, John, & Rivkin, Steven
Examines how school racial composition affects scholastic achievement and, thus, the black-white achievement gap.
24) 2009 - The Black-White-Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents
Authors: Herman, Melissa
Test theories of racial differences in achievement among mono-racial and multi-racial high school students.
25) 2009 - Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation
Authors: Jackson, C. Kirabo
Investigate the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality that are not confounded with changes in…
26) 2009 - Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement
Authors: Jargowsky, Paul A., & El Komi, Mohamed
Explores the relative effects of school and neighborhood characteristics on student achievement.
27) 2009 - The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking
Authors: Kelly, Sean
Analyze differences in the mathematics course taking of white and black students. Examine determinants of enrollment in math courses of…
28) 2009 - Parental Choice in the Netherlands: Growing Concerns about Segregation
Authors: Ladd, Helen F., Fiske, Edward B., & Ruijs, Nienke
This paper examines why segregation by educational disadvantage has only recently emerged as a policy issue in the Netherlands. In…
29) 2009 - To Choose or not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in Chicago
Authors: Lauen, Douglas Lee
This article examines differences in graduation rates between participants and nonparticipants of Chicago's many public high school choice programs.
30) 2009 - Ability Grouping Practices in Elementary School and African American/Hispanic Achievement
Authors: Lleras, Christy, & Claudia Rangel
Examines the impact of ability grouping practices on the achievement gains among African Americans and Hispanics during elementary school.
32) 2009 - School Context and Charter School Achievement: A Framework for Understanding the Performance "Black Box"
Authors: Scott, Janelle, & Villavicencio, Adriana
Explores the relationship between charter school racial composition, school environments, and student achievement.
33) 2009 - Mapping School Segregation: Using GIS to Explore Racial Segregation Between Schools and their Corresponding Attendance Areas
Authors: Sohoni, Deenesh, & Saporito, Salvatore
Examines whether student enrollment in non-neighborhood schools changes levels of racial segregation in public schools across urban school districts by…
34) 2009 - Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Once They Leave the Nest?
Authors: Stearns, Elizabeth, Bachmann, Claudia, & Bonneau, Kara
Examines formation of interracial friendships among college students by examining how friendship networks change during the transition from HS to…
36) 2009 - The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
Authors: Weiner, David, Lutz, Byron, & Ludwig, Jens
Estimate the effects of court-ordered school desegregation on crime.
37) 2009 - Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates
Authors: Wells, Amy Stuart, Holme, Jennifer, Revilla, Anita Tijerina, & Atanda, Awo Korantemaa
Firsthand account by Blacks, Whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 of how desegregation affected them during high school and…
38) 2008 - Changes in Families, Schools, and the Test Score Gap
Authors: Berends, Mark, & Penaloza, Roberto V.
Examination of several family and schol-based explanations for test score differences between African American and White students in mathematics over…
39) 2008 - How Changes in Families and Schools are Related to Trends in Black-White Test Scores
Authors: Berends, Mark, Lucas, Samuel R., & Peñalosa, Roberto
Identify the relative contributions of changing family and school characteristics to the narrowing of the gap in black-white test scores…
41) 2008 - Creating Mathematical Futures Through an Equitable Teaching Approach: The Case of Railside School
Authors: Boaler, Jo, & Staples, Megan
Gain a better understanding of equitable and successful teaching by analyzing Railside's success.
42) 2008 - School Effects: Examining the Race Gap in Mathematics Achievement
Authors: Brown-Jeffy, Shelly
Relationship between school racial composition and the race-based gaps in mathematics achievement.
43) 2008 - ESL Placement and Schools: Effects on Immigrant Achievement
Authors: Callahan, Rebecca, Wilkinson, Lindsey, Muller, Chandra, & Frisco, Michelle
Investigates the effect of placement in ESL on academic progress and how it varies across school contexts.
46) 2008 - School Segregation Under Color-Blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina
Authors: Clotfelter, Charles T., Ladd, Helen, & Vigdor, Jacob
Measure segregation in terms of uneveness in racial enrollment patterns both between schools and within schools.
47) 2008 - Examining the Academic Success of Latino Students in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Majors
Authors: Cole, Darnell, & Espinoza, Araceli
1) To what extent does cultural capital and cultural congruity affect the academic performance of Latino students' majoring in STEM…
48) 2008 - The Role of Inequality in Teacher Quality
Authors: Corcoran, Sean P., & Evans, William N.
Examining how the exposure of White and Black students to higher quality teachers has changed over fifteen years.
49) 2008 - Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap
Authors: Covay, Elizabeth
Uses the institutional perspective to explore Black-White differences in high school course taking.
50) 2008 - Plotting School Choice: The Challenges of Crossing District Lines
Authors: Dillon, Erin
Uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping technology of school performance information in California, Texas, and Florida, to determine which factors…