Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances

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Russell Sage (2011)
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Group 6 acts of misconduct may be expelled from school and assigned to Alternative Safe Schools (CPS 2009b).1 The goal of the CPS Safe Schools program is to give students who have been expelled the opportunity to earn credits toward a ...

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'Crime and the Production of Safe Schools'.David S. Kirk & Robert J. Sampson
Inequality in Postsecondary Attainment.Martha Bailey & Susan M. Dynarski
The role of family, school and community characteristics in inequality in education and labor market outcomes.Joseph G. Altonji & Richard Mansfield
Introduction: The American dream, then and now.  (pages 3--23)Greg J. Duncan & Richard J. Murnane
Lessons from neuroscience research for understanding causal links between family and neighborhood characteristics and educational outcomes.  (pages 27--46)Charles A. Nelson & Margaret A. Sheridan
The nature and impact of early achievement skills, attention skills, and behavior problems.  (pages 47--69)Greg J. Duncan & Katherine Magnuson
Middle and high school skills, behaviors, attitudes, and curriculum enrollment, and their consequences.  (pages 71--90)George Farkas
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations.  (pages 91--116)Sean F. Reardon
Inequality in postsecondary education.  (pages 117--132)Martha J. Bailey & Susan M. Dynarski
Educational mobility in the United States since the 1930s.  (pages 165--186)Michael Hout & Alexander Janus
Parenting, time use, and disparities in academic outcomes.  (pages 207--228)Meredith Phillips
The effects of local employment losses on children's educational achievement.  (pages 299--314)Elizabeth O. Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines & Christina M. Gibson-Davis
Year-by-year and cumulative impacts of attending a high-mobility elementary school on children's mathematics achievement in Chicago, 1995 to 2005. [REVIEW]  (pages 359--376)Stephen W. Raudenbush, Marshall Jean & M. Art
School desegregation and the black-white test score gap.  (pages 443--464)J. L. Vigdor
The challenges of finding causal links between family educational practices and schooling outcomes.  (pages 465--482)Frank F. Furstenberg
Understanding the Context for Existing Research and Reform Proposals.  (pages 507--522)Harry Brighouse & Gina Schouten

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