We juxtapose (positive and negative) compositional effects of school-average achievement
and school-average socioeconomic status (SES) on students' academic self-concept (ASC) …

Adults ask children what they want to be when they grow up, ho** that this will motivate
children to focus on their schoolwork-this does not necessarily happen. Identity-based …

Recently published social science research suggests that students attending schools with
concentrations of disadvantaged racial minority populations achieve less academic …

This article explores how the associations between student achievement and achievement
growth influence our understanding of the role schools play in academic inequality. Using …

Although evidence indicates that neighborhoods affect educational outcomes, relatively little
research has explored the mechanisms thought to mediate these effects. This study …

Economic and social success in American life increasingly requires a college degree.
Fourteen percent of children from poor families may reach the top 40% of the income …

Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest
implications for students' achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to …

Der vorliegende Beitrag fasst die Befundlage zu der Frage, ob die Zusammensetzung der
Schülerschaft einer Schule bzw. Schulklasse einen Einfluss auf die Schulleistungen von …

The evaluation of education cost differentials across school districts has been an important
topic in education fi nance research for decades (Fowler and Monk, 2001). Interest in this …

How families make school choices is a key part of debates about market-based school
reforms. Advocates argue that market-based school systems give families the educational …