2013 - Equalizing, But Not Greatly: High School Resources and Socioeconomic Inequalities in College Destinations

Attribution: Klugman, Joshua
Researchers: Joshua Klugman
University Affiliation: Temple University
Email: klugman@temple.edu
Research Question:
This study examines if school resources have different effects for low- and high-SES students' college destinations. This study also examines whether the effects of marks of distinction on college destinations are contingent on student SES.
Published: 0
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: N/A
Journal Entry: Paper at a conference
Year: 2013
Findings:
  • SES differences in highly-most competitive colleges are wider among students who do not have school earned marks of distinction.
  • For all the resources that occur in high SES-schools they offer substantial benefits to high-SES students but none to low-SES ones.
  • This study identifies potential in schools to compensate for family resource inequalities. Schools with IB programs appear to be successful in ensuring that the benefits of this program reach low-SES students.
  • Private schools also appear to have social resources that benefit low-SES students just as much as high-SES students.
Keywords: OutcomesSESRegions: NationalMethodologies: QualitativeAnalysis Methods: Regression Sampling Frame:Nationally representative sample of tenth graders
Sampling Types: RandomAnalysis Units: StudentData Types: Quantitative
Data Description:
  • Data come from Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS) with follow ups conducted in 2004 and 2006. Survey was commissioned by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)

    10,070 cases in 710 schools.

  • DV: College Destinations
  • IV: SES; Programmatic School Resources; Pedagogical School Resources; Social School Resources; Marks if Distinction

    Controls for Selection into high school

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Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts