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Classroom-Based Inequalities and Achievement Gaps in the First Grade: The Role of Classroom Context and Access to Qualified and Effective Teachers

    1) What are the magnitudes of URM (underrepresented minorities) achievement gaps in reading and math at the beginning of first grade, and to what degree do they change during first grade?

    2) Do student inputs vary across classrooms and schools? What are the magnitudes of school based achievement gaps that develop in the first grade? Do URM have equitable access to classrooms with contextual characteristics conducive to learning? Highly qualified teachers and effective teachers?

    3) And if not what degree does each contribute to the achievement gaps that accumulate during the first grade?

Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection?

How does exposure to classroom poverty affect student test achievement?

Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions

1) Are black students more likely than their white peers to bring up different issues or topics in these classes? If so, are there significant race differences in the degree to which students reference different sociological institutions, cultural symbols, and demographics categories?

2) Do students with different race backgrounds utilize different strategies or resources in these course discussions?

Schools and Inequality: A Multilevel Analysis of Coleman's Equality of Educational Opportunity Data

Reanalysis and reconceptualization of the Coleman report through a 2-level hierarchical linear model.

Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School. A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

Examining the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement in high schools, especially in the core courses taken early in a student’s high school career.

Classroom Peer Effects, Effort, and Race

Develops a theoretical model of educational peer effects and then empiracally tests whether or not they exist.

Creating Mathematical Futures Through an Equitable Teaching Approach: The Case of Railside School

Gain a better understanding of equitable and successful teaching by analyzing Railside’s success.

School Segregation Under Color-Blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina

Measure segregation in terms of uneveness in racial enrollment patterns both between schools and within schools.

Does Gender Composition of the Classroom Matter? A Comparison of Students' Academic and Social Outcomes in Single-Gender and Coed High School Classrooms

How gender composition affects students’ academic and socio-emotional outcomes?

Classroom Peer Effects and Student Achievement

Compare the strength of peer effects across different groupings of peers, and compare effects of fixed vs. time-varying peer characteristics.

Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?

Deeper understanding of peer effects is critical to assessing the impact of desegregating peer group on the achievement of white and nonwhite students

A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory

Test of intergroup contact theory.

Within-School Segregation in an Urban School District

Examine patterns in and evaluate the severity of within-school segregation across ethnic groups, grades, boroughs, and years.

"We Value Diversity, but…" Academic Achievement of White, Middle Class Elementary Students in Segregated and Integrated Schools

Does academic achievement of elementary school children from white, middle class backgrounds differ depending on the racial makeup of their school?

Designing Schools and Instruction that Use Student Diversity to Enhance Learning for All Students

Examines how schools and students can benefit from diversity.

Opportunity at the Crossroads: Racial Inequality, School Segregation, and Higher Education in California

Underrepresentation of African American and Latino high school graduates among students qualified for admission to California’s public, baccalaureate.

Equity in Heterogeneous Classrooms

Argues that multicultural classrooms should be equitable classrooms through heterogeneous grouping.

Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District

Analyzes variations in spending and achievement among 89 public elementary schools.

Diversity in Higher Education: Theory and Impact in Educational Outcomes

Explore relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in the college or university settings and their educational outcomes.

Classroom Composition and Peer Effects

The extent to which the composition of classes affects learning outcomes.

The Effect of Schools and Classes on Mathematics Achievement

What are the effects of secondary schools, teachers, and classes on mathematics achievement.

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom: Does it Promotes Student Learning?

Examines direct effect of classroom diversity on academic/intellectual outcomes and moderation of these by collaborative instructional approaches.

Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Identify the effects of peers using sources of idisyncratic sources of variation, such as changes in the gender and racial composition.

The Inequality of Separation: Racial Composition of Schools and Academic Achievement

1. Do African American students show significantly lower scores than other students on the Graduation Exit Examination (GEE)? 2. If they show lower scores, can differences in scores on this examination be explained by the SES of the family (as reflected by the occupational prestige and education of parents)? 3. Does the proportion of African Americans in a school tend to raise or lower the examination scores of students in general, controlling for the socio-demographic characteristics of individual students? 4. Can the effect of racial composition of schools be explained by family socioeconomic background of schoolmates? 5. Does the racial composition of schools affect African American and White Students achievement differently? What is the relative importance of these factors as between-school verses within-school determinants of academic achievement?

Classroom Structure, Functioning, and Student Outcomes: An Organizational-Cultural Approach to Classroom Research

The relations between classroom organization characteristics and student education outcomes, with a focus on the classroom functioning mechanism.

Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships

Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness

Effects of Ability Grouping on Student Achievement

What are the effects of ability grouping in the typical study?

Instructional Grouping in the Classroom

Some types of instructional grouping that contribute to more positive academic and affective outcomes for students.

Classroom Intellectual Composition and Academic Achievement

Test if the intellectual level of the classroom affects the quality of learning environments.

Cooperative Learning and Intergroup Relations

Examine changes in classroom organization and student friendship patterns when cooperative learning methods are used in the desegregated classroom

Effects of Biracial Learning Teams on Cross-Racial Friendships

Studies the effects of biracial learning teams on cross-race friendship in desegregated junior high schools