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Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?
Adam Gamoran,Robert D. Mare +1 more
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The authors examined the effects of academic tracking in secondary schools on educational stratification and considered how that tracking may affect levels and dispersions of academic achievement and high school graduation rates among social groups.Abstract:
This article examines the effects of academic tracking in secondary schools on educational stratification and considers how that tracking may affect levels and dispersions of academic achievement and high school graduation rates among social groups. Data from the High School and Beyond survey of students who were sophomores in 1980 show that placement in the college track substantially benefits growth in mathematics achievement and the probability of high school graduation, even when measured and unmeasured sources of nonrandom assignment to tracks are taken into account. Track assignment reinforces preexisting inequalities in achievement among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. However, track assignment and differential achievement in tracks partially compensate blacks and girls for their initial disadvantages and makes racial and sexual inequalities smaller than they may have otherwise been. The article provides qualified support for the view that students are assigned to the tracks that...read more
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Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments
TL;DR: Cumulative advantage is a general mechanism for inequality across any temporal process (e.g., life course, family generations) in which a favorable relative position becomes a resource that produces further relative gains as mentioned in this paper.
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Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects1
TL;DR: The authors used time-varying performance measures to predict students' track placement/school continuation, and found that the later an education transition, the lower the social background effect, which supports the validity of the educational transitions approach.
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Parental Involvement as Social Capital: Differential Effectiveness on Science Achievement, Truancy, and Dropping Out
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From First Grade Forward: Early Foundations of High School Dropout.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the children's personal qualities, first-grade experiences and family circumstances as precursors to high school dropout in a sample of Baltimore school children from entrance into first grade in fall 1982 through early spring 1996.
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Inequality, A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America.
TL;DR: The book Inequality by Christopher Jencks is in one sense an arid waste of somewhat confusing and misleading statistics between chapter one and chapter nine, and, in another sense, a destructive, unscientific critique of American education and families.
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Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the use of truncated distributions in the context of unions and wages, and some results on truncated distribution Bibliography Index and references therein.
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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.
Nancy L. Arnez,Jeannie Oakes +1 more
TL;DR: This provocative, carefully documented work shows how takingreflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps perpetuate them.
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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
TL;DR: The tracking wars of the last twenty years as discussed by the authors have played a central role in the history of American education, in which the keeping hand has played a crucial role in many of the wars.
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Inequality : a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America
TL;DR: Most Americans say they believe in equality. But when pressed to explain what they mean by this, their definitions are usually full of contradictions as mentioned in this paper. But most Americans also believe that some people are more competent than others, and that this will always be so, no matter how much we reform society.
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The Effects of Education as an Institution
TL;DR: This article explored the institutional effects of education as a legitimation system and suggested that it is a special case of a more general macrosociological theory of the effects of the education system as a system of legitimation.