Reforming national education systems has become a global phenomenon. International
education development literature describes education policies and consequent reforms in …

Social inequality is a central topic of research in the social sciences. Decades of research
have deepened our understanding of the characteristics and causes of social inequality. At …

Chile features a universal school choice system, in which a government voucher provides
families an opportunity to send students to public or private schools of their choosing. Since …

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical
change. Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the …

Schools teach those they think they must and when they think they needn't, they don't. That
fact has nothing to do with social science, except that the children of social scientists are …

We extend Altonji and Mansfield's control function approach to allow for multiple group
levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for a causal interpretation …

By employing the resilience framework, this study investigates how poverty would impact
children's educational and behavioral performance in China. Considering the nested …

James Coleman's 1966 epic study entitled Equality of Educational Opportunity documented
the shocking achievement gap (eg Five years) between Black and White children. Coleman …

En el año 2016 se cumplió el 50 aniversario de la publicación del llamado Informe
Coleman. Bajo el título¿ Inequality of Educational Opportunity¿ el citado informe tuvo una …

This chapter summarizes the extant sociological literature on the interactive nature of school
and teacher effects on student learning. It explains why the most recent literature on teacher …