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Zarate, Maria Estela; Pineda, Claudia G. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Relying largely on high school measures of home language use, the literature examining immigrant incorporation in schools provides contradictory evidence of home language effects on educational outcomes. More recent research has demonstrated that home language use is dynamic and thus it is important to examine the implications…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Usage, Immigrants, Family Environment
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Hagan, John; Foster, Holly – Sociology of Education, 2012
In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their child's primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and concentration of the mass imprisonment of fathers is associated with their own children's intergenerational educational outcomes and "spills over" into the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Fathers, Institutionalized Persons
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Franklin, Somer L.; Slate, John R.; Joyner, Sheila A. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2014
In this article, we analyzed research studies in the field of graduate education. In particular, we explored the issue of inequity in graduate education through three key lenses of social science analyses. Furthermore, we analyzed selected quantitative research studies that undertook a comparative examination of aggregate trends in enrollment and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Ethnic Diversity, Ethnicity, Statistical Analysis