1.) What schooling options do mothers in gentrifying areas consider in the school-selection process?
2.) What forms of communication do they utilize to exchange information regarding school options?
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Impacts of Intersection Between Social Capital and Finances on Community College Students' Pursuit of STEM Degrees
1) How can the constructs of social/cultural capital and financial constraints be measured? 2) How do the intersection of social capital and financial constraints impact community college students’ pursuit of STEM degrees through transfer? 3) Identify the factors related to social and cultural capital, finances, and external factors that pull students away from their studies.
College Student Persistence in Scientific Disciplines: Cultural and Social Capital as Contributing Factors
The research questions guiding this study were:
1. What factors and experiences of women of color influence their persistence in science majors?
2. How do sources of capital (cultural and social) contribute to persistence efforts?
Seeking a 'Critical Mass': Middle-Class Parents Collective Engagement in City Public Schooling
Is middle-class parents’ collective engagement in schooling particularly important in under-resourced urban contexts?
Diverse Schools in a Democratic Society: New Ways of Understanding How School Demographics Affect Civic and Political Learning
This paper considers whether a new framework for conceptualizing school racial composition, including the number and identity of specific racial groups and the stability of those groups, can determine more precisely the ways in which school diversity impacts students’ citizenship learning.
Social Isolation and Social Cohesion: The Effects of K-12 Neighborhood and School Segregation on Intergroup Orientations
Relationship between social cohesion and social isolation at the institutional level in schools and neighborhoods.
Examining the Effects of High School Contexts on Postsecondary Enrollment
1) In what ways do student-level characteristics influence the likelihood of enrolling in a 2 or 4-year postsecondary institution versus no enrollment, controlling for differences across school-level measures of the high school context? 2) In what ways do school-level characteristics influence the likelihood of enrolling in a 2 or 4-year postsecondary institution versus no enrollment, controlling for differences in student-level characteristics? 3) Do school-level measures have an effect above and beyond their corresponding student-level measures?
Same-Race Friendships and School Attachment: Demonstrating the Interaction Between Personal Network and School Composition
- What is the relationship between number of same-race relationships and school attachment?
- Does the relationship between same-race friendships and and school attainment get stronger when the school includes a large proportion of same race peers?
Head of the Class: Black/White Inequality, Cultural and Social Capital, and High School Math Achievement
Investigate the role of cultural and social capital in generating the achievement disparity between Blacks and Whites.
The Relative Importance of Race and Socioeconomic Status Among Hispanic and White Students
Examines the longitudinal effects of race and socioeconomic status on 12th-grade educational achievement and achievement two years after high school.
A Case Study of Teachers' Perceptions of School Desegregation and the Redistribution of Social and Academic Capital
Teacher’s perceptions of the core assumptions of school desegregation using data from a Louisiana district that was recently ordered to desegregate.
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
How social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States.
School Segregation and Academic Achievement Among Hispanic Children
The effects of race and class composition on Latino student’s academic achievement/extent to which compositional effects vary by generational status.
Schooling Closer to Home: Desegregation Policy and Neighborhood Contexts
Analyze the implications of schooling closer to home by analyzing neighborhood contexts.
Non-School Problems and Urban School Desegregation: An Historical Analysis of the Implications of Desegregation for School Effectiveness in the Cleveland Municipal School District
How does school racial composition affect the effectiveness of schools?
The Relationship Between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Group Differences
1) What is the relationship between parental involvement and the likelihood that a student enrolls in a 2-year or 4-year college in the fall after graduating from high school? 2) How does the relationship differ between the different types of parental involvement and the likelihood of enrolling in a 2-year or 4-year college? 3) What is the relationship between the characteristics of the social networks at the school attended and the likelihood that a student enrolls in a 2-year or 4-year college?
School Racial and Ethnic Composition Effect on Academic Achievement of Latino Adolescents
Studies the effects of school racial & SES composition, peer networks, and family social capital on the academic achievement of Latino adolescents.
Effects of Within-Class Ability Grouping on Social Interaction, Achievement, and Motivation
Examine how grouping arrangements affect students’ achievement, social interaction, and motivation.
A Stranger in Two Worlds
How has segregation evolved over the past few decades?
Yellow and Brown: Emerging Asian American Immigrant Populations and Residential Segregation
Ways in which resources & social networks translate into educational mobility, and emphasize how these resources vary among Asian Americans.
What Will You Think of Me? Racial Integration, Peer Relationships and Achievement Among White Students and Students of Color
Studies the relationship between the connection to peers at school and academic engagement and achievement.
Social Capital, Academic Capital, and the "Harm and Benefit" Thesis: Evidence from a Desegregating School District
Re-examination of the Coleman social-capital hypothesis, with specific emphasis on the “harm and benefit” thesis.
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?
After removing the fixed effects of students, family, and schools, does peer achievement affect individual student achievement?
Why Does It Take a Village? The Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Achievement
Identifies which neighborhood characteristics influence educational achievement and what mechanisms mediate those associations
Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects
Proposes a general explanation for social background-related inequality.
The School Compositional Effect of Single Parenthood on 10th-Grade Achievement
Whether and how school’s concentration of students from single-parent families affect the social context for learning for all student.
Effect of School Population Socioeconomic Status on Individual Academic Achievement
Relationship between the socioeconomic status (SES) of peers and individual academic achievement.
Social Positions in Schooling
Analyzes students’ curricular positioning and social positions in schooling.
Social Capital and the Reproduction of Inequality: Information Networks Among Mexican-Origin High School Students
Educational goals and the expectations of Mexican-origin high school students, and their academic performance, and their reported social ties.
Perpetuation Theory and the Long-Term Effects of School Desegregation
Long-term effects of school desegregation on the life chances of African American students.
The Micro-Structure of School Desegregation
Explores the structure of social relations among participants in desegregated settings.
A Long-Term View of School Desegregation: Some Recent Studies of Graduates as Adults
Evidence that school desegregation leads to desegregation in several areas of adult life.
Going to College and Getting a Good Job: The Impact of Desegregation
New ways of thinking about why desegregated schooling can have worthwhile consequences. Desegregation schooling and opportunities for success.