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Social Capital in Schools: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis of the Equity of Its Distribution and Relation to Academic Achievement
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Salloum, Serena J.; Goddard, Roger D.; Larsen, Ross – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Schools face pressure to promote equitable student outcomes as the achievement gap continues to persist. The authors examine different ways in which social capital has been conceptualized as well as prior theory and research on its formation and consequences. While some theoretical and empirical work conceptualizes social capital as a…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Correlation, High School Students
Language-Based Differences in the Literacy Performance of Bidialectal Youth
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Smith, Patriann; Cheema, Jehanzeb R.; Kumi-Yeboah, Alex; Warrican, S. Joel; Alleyne, Melissa L. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Standard English functions as a dominant language in the English-speaking Caribbean context despite the bidialectal, bilingual, and multilingual nature of countries. Notwithstanding, Caribbean non-Standard English-speaking students continue to be administered literacy assessments that do not take into account their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialects, Language Dominance, Foreign Countries
Teacher Turnover in Organizational Context: Staffing Stability in Los Angeles Charter, Magnet, and Regular Public Schools
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Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Rivero, Rosario; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Studies that compare the achievement benefits of charter public schools versus traditional public schools (TPSs) yield quite uneven results. The quality and long-term commitment of teachers represent related mediators that may help to explain effective and ineffective charter schools. Early findings on the comparative rates of…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, Charter Schools, Magnet Schools
Identifying the Determinants of Chronic Absenteeism: A Bioecological Systems Approach
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Gottfried, Michael A.; Gee, Kevin A. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: Chronic school absenteeism is a pervasive problem across the US; in early education, it is most rampant in kindergarten and its consequences are particularly detrimental, often leading to poorer academic, behavioral and developmental outcomes later in life. Though prior empirical research has identified a broad range of…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Incidence, Early Childhood Education
Postnatal College Trajectories: When and under What Circumstances Do Mothers Enroll?
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Radey, Melissa – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: In light of increasingly common, non-traditional pathways to college enrollment and potential importance of post-secondary education for family wellbeing, this article examines maternal college enrollment. I employ a sociological application of rational action theory in which costs of reentry, probability of success, and…
Descriptors: Mothers, College Students, Enrollment, Well Being
Toward a Positive Explanation of Student Differences in Reading Growth
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Adams, Curt M.; Palmer, Anna H. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Education has much in common with professions that are using positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship to transform practice, yet the science behind peak human and group functioning has been slow to displace deficit-based framing of reform policies and improvement strategies in education. Purpose of the Study: This…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Individual Differences, Self Determination, Learning Theories