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Journal Article Social science research · January 2024 Although many scholars have written about culture in schools and discuss culture as a group-level phenomenon, quantitative studies tend to empirically examine culture at the individual-level. This study presents a group-level conceptualization of academic ... Full text Cite

Immigrant selectivity, academic culture and college enrollment among Asian Americans

Journal Article Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · January 1, 2021 Asian Americans have advantages across numerous indicators for educational attainment and upward mobility. While researchers acknowledge the contribution of positive selective migration in Asian Americans’ academic success, the relationship of selective mi ... Full text Cite

Social Class and Educational Attainment: Do Blacks Benefit Less from Increases in Parents’ Social Class Status?

Journal Article Sociology of Race and Ethnicity · April 1, 2020 Classic and contemporary studies show that greater social class status is associated with higher levels of education for youth. However, racialized processes might constrain the benefits blacks receive from increases in parents’ social class. In this study ... Full text Cite

The impact of suspension on participation in school-based extracurricular activities and out-of-school community service.

Journal Article Social science research · January 2020 In recent decades, school suspensions have increased dramatically in the United States. To date, researchers have assessed the consequences of suspensions on adolescents' academic achievement, self-esteem, and psychological well-being. However, few studies ... Full text Cite

Getting ready ahead: socioeconomic status and parenting strategies among Chinese adolescents with emigration intentions

Journal Article Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · January 1, 2019 Selective migration is traditionally acknowledged as an important mechanism explaining the educational and socioeconomic attainment of immigrants. However, most existing studies employing data in destination countries provide an inaccurate image of the sel ... Full text Cite

A new framework for understanding parental involvement: Setting the stage for academic success

Journal Article RSF · September 1, 2016 The Coleman Report posited that the inequality of educational opportunity appears to stem from the home itself and the cultural influences immediately surrounding the home. However, this line of inquiry assumes that school and home processes operate in iso ... Full text Cite

Looking through the Shades: The Effect of Skin Color on Earnings by Region of Birth and Race for Immigrants to the United States

Journal Article Sociology of Race and Ethnicity · January 1, 2016 The purpose of this study is to determine whether a labor market penalty exists for members of immigrant groups as a result of being phenotypically different from white Americans. Specifically, the authors examine the link between skin shade, perhaps the m ... Full text Cite

The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children’s Education

Book · January 6, 2014 In this provocative work, Robinson and Harris believe that the time has come to reconsider whether parental involvement can make much of a dent in the basic problems facing American schools today. ... Cite

Racial and social class differences in how parents respond to inadequate achievement: Consequences for children's future achievement

Journal Article Social Science Quarterly · December 1, 2013 Objective: Despite numerous studies on parental involvement in children's academic schooling, there is a dearth of knowledge on how parents respond specifically to inadequate academic performance. This study examines whether (1) racial differences exist in ... Full text Cite

Can Members Of Marginalized Groups Remain Invested In Schooling?: An Assessment From The United States And The United Kingdom

Chapter · March 4, 2013 Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. Education, Justice, and Democracy does just that, offering an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines. ... Cite

Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top 10% Law

Journal Article Race and Social Problems · April 1, 2012 This paper examines the consequences of changes in Hispanic college enrollment after affirmative action was banned and replaced by an admission guarantee for students who graduate in the top 10% of their high school class. We use administrative data on app ... Full text Cite

Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top Ten Percent Law

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Early occupational aspirations and fractured transitions: A study of entry into 'NEET' status in the UK

Journal Article Journal of Social Policy · July 1, 2011 There has been significant recent research and policy interest in issues of young people's occupational aspirations, transitions to employment and the antecedents of NEET (not in employment, education or training) status.Many have argued that changes to th ... Full text Cite

Kids Don't Want to Fail

Book · 2011 Kids Don’t Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the black-white achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community. ... Cite

Young People’s Ambition and Future Employment Outcomes in the United Kingdom

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Uncertainty in early occupational aspirations: Role exploration or aimlessness?

Journal Article Social Forces · December 1, 2010 Many youth in the United States lack clear occupational aspirations. This uncertainty in achievement ambitions may benefit socio-economic attainment if it signifies "role exploration," characterized by career development, continued education and enduring p ... Full text Cite

Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling

Chapter · October 8, 2010 Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or exacerbated social inequality? ... Cite

Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2010 The authors uses administrative data for the two most selective Texas public institutions to examine the application, admission, and enrollment consequences of rescinding affirmative action and implementing the top 10 percent admission regime. The authors ... Full text Link to item Cite

Uncertainty in Early Occupational Aspirations: Role Exploration or Aimlessness?

Journal Article Social Forces · 2010 Many youth in the United States lack dear occupational aspirations. This uncertainty in achievement ambitions may benefit socio-economic attainment if it signifies "role exploration," characterized by career development, continued education and enduring pa ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Economic and Educational State of Black Americans in the 21st Century: Should We be Optimistic or Concerned?

Journal Article Review of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2010 This report presents an overview of the economic and educational status of black Americans. In addition to summarizing blacks' current economic condition, long-term trends are also presented. The purpose of this report is to highlight information that will ... Full text Cite

Oppositional Culture Theory

Chapter · November 2008 The nearly 400 entries in this three-volume set are organized by life stage: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life. ... Cite

Optimism in the face of despair: Black-white differences in beliefs about school as a means for upward social mobility

Journal Article Social Science Quarterly · September 1, 2008 Objective. This study aims to provide a better understanding of how beliefs about the system of social mobility affect students' schooling outcomes. Previous studies reach conflicting conclusions because they conflate two forms of beliefs about social mobi ... Full text Cite

Disparities in the Educational Success of Immigrants: An Assessment of the Immigrant Effect for Asians and Latinos

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2008 This study employs nationally representative data to determine how immigrants from the largest immigrant groups within the United States (i.e., Asians and Latinos) compare to whites on a wide range of educational outcomes. The authors also examine the exte ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breaking the Class Monolith: Understanding Class Differences in Black Adolescents’ Attachment to Racial Identity

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Schooling Behaviors or Prior Skills? A Cautionary Tale of Omitted Variable Bias within Oppositional Culture Theory

Journal Article Sociology of Education · 2007 Prior research on oppositional culture theory has generally focused on beliefs about the opportunity structure, or the "acting white" hypothesis, as an explanation for racial differences in school achievement. However, little attention has been given to th ... Full text Link to item Cite

I (don't) hate school: Revisiting oppositional culture theory of blacks' resistance to schooling

Journal Article Social Forces · December 1, 2006 This study provides an extensive test of Ogbu's oppositional culture theory that accounts for student maturation over time. Using data from the Maryland Adolescence Development In Context Study (MADICS), I test the proposition that blacks resist school mor ... Full text Cite

I (Don't) Hate School: Revisiting Oppositional Culture Theory of Blacks' Resistance to Schooling

Journal Article Social Forces · 2006 This study provides an extensive test of Ogbu's oppositional culture theory that accounts for student maturation over time. Using data from the Maryland Adolescence Development In Context Study (MADICS), I test the proposition that blacks resist school mor ... Full text Link to item Cite