School & neighborhood contexts influence on differences in children’s achievement growth during the kindergarten and first-grade years across seasons.
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ClearFamily, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?
Assess the degree to which social context and race/ethnic composition- in neighborhoods and schools- affect the reading achievement growth of young children.
Increasing Racial Isolation and Test Score Gaps in Mathematics
Analyze associations between the black-white and Latino-white test score gaps and changes in school minority composition.
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.
An Organizational Perspective on the Origins of Instructional Segregation: School Composition and Use of Within-Class Ability Grouping in American Kindergartens
Investigate the degree to which racial and ethnic composition of schools is associated with use of ability grouping practices as early as kindergarten.
Equity in Mathematics and Science Outcomes: Characteristics Associated with High and Low Achievement on PISA 2006 in Ireland
Examines student and school background characteristics associated with low and high achievement in mathematics and science on the Programme for International Student Assessment.
Learning Apart, Living Apart: The Lasting Impact of Perpetual Segregation
Extent to which neighborhoods’ % white is replicated across generations & the extent to which HS’ & colleges’ percent white mediates this relationship.
Persistence of Women and Minorities in STEM Field Majors: Is it the School that Matters?
Which factors contribute to persistence of all students in STEM field majors, and in particular the persistence of women and minorities?
School Composition and Context Factors that Moderate and Predict 10th-Grade Science Proficiency
Examine the relationship between 10th grade science proficiency and school context factors related to school environment, courses, and teachers.
A Crisis of Authority in Predominantly Black Schools?
Analyze reports of problem behavior from teachers and administrators and see if they differ from those in integrated and non-Black schools. How does the prevalence of developmental instruction vary across schools with different racial compositions?
Student and School Predictors of High-Stakes Assessment in Science
This study examined both student and school predictors of science achievement as measured by a high-stakes state test.
Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools
The authors investigate whether racially diverse high schools offer equality of educational opportunity to students from different racial and ethnic groups. This is examined by measuring the relative representation of minority students in advanced math classes at the beginning of high school and estimating whether and how this opportunity structure limits the level of achievement attained by African American and Latino students by the end of high school.
End of High School Mathematics Attainment: How Did Students Get There?
Explored various kinds of individual and school compositional factors that might produce differences in students’ growth in math and eohs math.
Neighborhoods and Schools as Competing and Reinforcing Contexts for Educational Attainment
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author analyzes how school and neighborhood contexts are jointly related to high school and college graduation.
Does the SES of the School Matter? An Examination of Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement Using PISA 2003
The relationship between school SES and student outcomes.
Housing Policy is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery Count, Maryland
Examination of elementary school math and reading performances of public housing students from very-low-poverty to moderate-poverty level neighborhoods to determine effects of economic integration on performance.
Examining the Effects of School Composition on North Carolina Student Achievement Over Time
Analyze the effects of school level inputs (including school racial and poverty composition) on North Carolina students’ reading and math achievement from 4th through 8th grade.
Long-Term Correlates of High School Racial Composition: Perpetuation Theory Re-Examined
Examine long-term influences of high school racial composition on students’ later racial isolation in the workplace in 1994 & 2000.
ADHD-Related School Compositional Effects: An Exploration
Examines variation in ADHD compositional effects as a function of key school factors on reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and teacher-reported levels of externalizing behavior.
Social Reproduction of Inequality: The Racial Composition of Feeder Schools to the University of California
The extent to which there is unevenness in the rate at which individual UC campuses enroll first-time freshmen from HS that vary by racial comp.
Examining the STEM Educational Pipeline: The Influence of Pre-College Factors on the Educational Trajectory of African American students
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’ decision to major in a STEM field? 3) What pre-college factors predict STEM degree attainment among African American students?
Children of Immigrants and Educational Expectations: The Roles of School Composition
Understanding the educational processes of children of immigrant specifically, and all students more broadly, as the immigrant population grows in U.S. schools.
School Composition and Contextual Effects on Student Outcomes
Examine the relationships among school composition, several aspects of school and classroom context, and students’ literacy skills in science.
Academic Achievement in the First Year of College: Evidence of the Pervasive Effects of the High School Context
1) What are the unique effects of students’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, precollege academic performance, capital acquisition, and dimensions of the high school context on first year academic performance in college?
2) Do the effects of the high school context differ by students’ demographic or socioeconomic background characteristics?
Social Class, School and Non-School Environments, and Black/White Inequalitites in Children's Learning
How might schools exacerbate black/white disparities in learning while simultaneously slowing the growth of social class gaps?
Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools
Potential problems suggested by the “frog pond” perspective about the effects of socioeconomic desegregation in nonachievement domains.
Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance
Examines how peer networks impact educational achievement and attainment.
New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement
Examines how school racial composition affects scholastic achievement and, thus, the black-white achievement gap.
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation
Investigate the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality that are not confounded with changes in school or neighborhood characteristics.
The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking
Analyze differences in the mathematics course taking of white and black students. Examine determinants of enrollment in math courses of Blacks in 10th
To Choose or not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in Chicago
This article examines differences in graduation
rates between participants and nonparticipants of Chicago’s many public high school choice programs.
Ability Grouping Practices in Elementary School and African American/Hispanic Achievement
Examines the impact of ability grouping practices on the achievement gains among African Americans and Hispanics during elementary school.
The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
Estimate the effects of court-ordered school desegregation on crime.
How Changes in Families and Schools are Related to Trends in Black-White Test Scores
Identify the relative contributions of changing family and school characteristics to the narrowing of the gap in black-white test scores over decades.
School Effects: Examining the Race Gap in Mathematics Achievement
Relationship between school racial composition and the race-based gaps in mathematics achievement.
ESL Placement and Schools: Effects on Immigrant Achievement
Investigates the effect of placement in ESL on academic progress and how it varies across school contexts.
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.
Examining the Academic Success of Latino Students in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Majors
1) To what extent does cultural capital and cultural congruity affect the academic performance of Latino students’ majoring in STEM fields? 2) To what extent does campus climate, as measured through academic-related experiences of Latino students in STEM majors affect their academic performance?
The Role of Inequality in Teacher Quality
Examining how the exposure of White and Black students to higher quality teachers has changed over fifteen years.
Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap
Uses the institutional perspective to explore Black-White differences in high school course taking.
Differences in Scholastic Achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools: A Cross-National Analysis
Explain the gross differences in scholastic achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools.
Friendship Networks and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Academic Outcomes
What is the effect of racial and achievement composition on two peer group characteristics both at the school and at friendship network levels?
Race, Racial Concentration, and the Dynamics of Educational Inequality Across Urban and Suburban Schools
How does the process of educational performance and attainment differ across the 2 types of American schools (low and high minority schools)?