Selcuk R. Sirin

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reviewed the literature on socioeconomic status and academic achievement in journal articles published between 1990 and 2000 and showed a medium to strong SES-achievement relation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how Muslim youth negotiate their identities in these challenging times and found that the multiple cultures within which they live were suddenly and alarmingly in conflict, and that their interior lives were a dialectic labor of psychological reconciliation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of social class on the school-to-work transitions of young adults in working-class occupations and found that social class played an important role in the participants' STW transition, while individuals from the HSES cohort expressed greater interest in work as a source of personal satisfaction, higher levels of self-concept crystallization, greater access to external resources, and greater levels of career adaptability compared with their LSES counterparts.

TL;DR: Suarez-Orozco et al. as discussed by the authors explored the role of the hyphen with holes in it to allow women to sometimes fall through moral exclusion in a "nation of immigrants": an American Paradox.

TL;DR: With individual growth curve modeling, the results show significant decline in internalizing mental health problems during the high school years, and greater exposure to acculturative stress predicted significantly more withdrawn, somatic, and anxious/depressed symptoms.