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Schooling in Capitalist America.

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This article is published in History of Education Quarterly.The article was published on 1977-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 878 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capitalism.

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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors map critical race theory (CRT) scholarship in education over the past decade and draw this map with respect to larger conceptual categories of the scholarship on CRT, primarily focusing on the ideas applied from CRT in legal studies.
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Human Capital Policy

TL;DR: This paper showed the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background gaps in schooling and other dimensions of socioeconomic success.
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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formalize the concepts of self-productivity and complementarity of human capital investments and use them to explain the evidence on skill formation, and provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next generation of empirical studies, and for formulating policy.
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Value hierarchies across cultures: Taking a similarities perspective

TL;DR: The pan-cultural hierarchy of values is discussed in this article, where the authors demonstrate that correctly interpreting the value hierarchies of groups requires comparison with the pancultural normative baseline, and explain its adaptive functions in meeting the requirements of successful societal functioning.
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Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors map critical race theory (CRT) scholarship in education over the past decade and draw this map with respect to larger conceptual categories of the scholarship on CRT, primarily focusing on the ideas applied from CRT in legal studies.
Posted ContentDOI

Human Capital Policy

TL;DR: This paper showed the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background gaps in schooling and other dimensions of socioeconomic success.
ReportDOI

Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formalize the concepts of self-productivity and complementarity of human capital investments and use them to explain the evidence on skill formation, and provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next generation of empirical studies, and for formulating policy.
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Value hierarchies across cultures: Taking a similarities perspective

TL;DR: The pan-cultural hierarchy of values is discussed in this article, where the authors demonstrate that correctly interpreting the value hierarchies of groups requires comparison with the pancultural normative baseline, and explain its adaptive functions in meeting the requirements of successful societal functioning.
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The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research

TL;DR: The Historical and Intellectual Foundations of School Effectiveness Research 1.An Introduction to school effectiveness research 2.Current Topics and Approaches in school effectiveness Research: The Contemporary Field Part Two: The Knowledge Base of school effectiveness research 3.The Methodology and Scientific Properties of School effectiveness research 4.The Processes of school effectiveness 5.Context Issues within school effectiveness as discussed by the authors.