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Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986–1998 . By Orr Marion. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 242p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.
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This article is published in American Political Science Review.The article was published on 2000-12-01. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social capital & Politics.read more
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The Utility of Social Capital in Research on Health Determinants
James Macinko,Barbara Starfield +1 more
TL;DR: Elements of a research agenda are proposed to further elucidate the potential role of factors currently subsumed under the rubric of "social capital" and to clarify the apparent lack of consistent theoretical or empirical justification for their use.
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Student Engagement, Peer Social Capital, and School Dropout Among Mexican American and Non-Latino White Students:
TL;DR: The authors used a national longitudinal data set to study dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the largest minority population in the United States, and found that the dropout rate among Latinos was higher than other ethnic groups.
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Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
TL;DR: This article used social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people, highlighting the diverse experiences of young people through a broad spectrum of participants aged 11-30 from different class, ethnic and faith backgrounds, living in a range of national and transnational contexts.
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The Expanding Role of Philanthropy in Education Politics
Sarah Reckhow,Jeffrey W. Snyder +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated giving patterns among the 15 largest education foundations and found that a sector once criticized for not leveraging its investments now increasingly seeks to maximize its impact by supporting alternative providers, investing concurrently, and supporting grantees to engage in policy debates.
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Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth? Race, Class, and African American Schooling and Community in the Urban South and Midwest
TL;DR: This article conducted an investigation of two predominantly African American elementary schools in low-income communities, one in St. Louis, Missouri (1994-1997) and the other in Atlanta, Georgia (1999-2002).
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Student Engagement, Peer Social Capital, and School Dropout Among Mexican American and Non-Latino White Students:
TL;DR: The authors used a national longitudinal data set to study dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the largest minority population in the United States, and found that the dropout rate among Latinos was higher than other ethnic groups.
Journal ArticleDOI
Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
TL;DR: This article used social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people, highlighting the diverse experiences of young people through a broad spectrum of participants aged 11-30 from different class, ethnic and faith backgrounds, living in a range of national and transnational contexts.
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The Expanding Role of Philanthropy in Education Politics
Sarah Reckhow,Jeffrey W. Snyder +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated giving patterns among the 15 largest education foundations and found that a sector once criticized for not leveraging its investments now increasingly seeks to maximize its impact by supporting alternative providers, investing concurrently, and supporting grantees to engage in policy debates.
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Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth? Race, Class, and African American Schooling and Community in the Urban South and Midwest
TL;DR: This article conducted an investigation of two predominantly African American elementary schools in low-income communities, one in St. Louis, Missouri (1994-1997) and the other in Atlanta, Georgia (1999-2002).
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Everyday politics of school choice in the black community
TL;DR: The authors found that parents focused on finding a quality school while experiencing numerous barriers to accessing such schools; parents expressed experiential knowledge of being chosen, rather than choosing; and parents highlighted the opacity, uncertainty, and burden of choice, even when they participated in it quite heartily.