There is a growing abundance of research on outcomes of charter schools for children, teachers,
and communities, yet a paucity of research on why and how charter schools form in the …

The “choice” movement of the 1990s culminated in a proliferation of charter schools.
However, school choice and charter school options may have future consequences for racial …

This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important,
and striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation on and implementation of …

In this article, we explore several factors that may have an effect on business start-ups, focusing
on possible gender differences. We conceptualize social capital as inhering in people's …

We update theories of teacher expectancy and cultural capital by linking them to discussions
of technology. We argue for broadening the span of culturally important forms of capital by …

Studies of teacher satisfaction suggest that satisfaction is related to both the racial composition
and the organizational structure of the schools in which teachers work. In this article, the …

Using a model of student dropout with only two possible outcomes – “still in school” or “dropout”
– hides the complex reasons that students leave high school. We offer a model with …

We examined the argument that a “property barrier” explains the high degree of self-employed
inheritance between propertied families and their children. Our study used data on 229 …

Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school
parents in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of …

We examine the connection between personal network characteristics and the activation of
ties for access to resources during routine times. We focus on factors affecting business …