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The Coleman Report at Fifty: Its Legacy and Implications for Future Research on Equality of Opportunity

Karl Alexander, Stephen L. Morgan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2016, 2 (5) 1-16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.01
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aDirector of the Thurgood Marshall Alliance and John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University
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bBloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at Johns Hopkins University
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vol. 2 no. 5 1-16
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.01

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Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. We thank Minhyoung Kang and Joel Pally for their programming assistance as well as attendees of the November 2015 gathering at the Russell Sage Foundation for their helpful suggestions. Direct correspondence to: Karl Alexander at karl@jhu.edu, School of Education, 2800 N. Charles St., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; and Stephen L. Morgan at stephen.morgan@jhu.edu, Department of Sociology, 3400 N. Charles St., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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    • BACKGROUND
    • THE PRIMARY FINDINGS OF EEO
    • THE LEGACY OF EEO
    • EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY IN BALTIMORE FIFTY YEARS LATER
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