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Peer reviewedEspenshade, Thomas J.; Hale, Lauren E.; Chung, Chang Y. – Sociology of Education, 2005
In this article, the authors test a "frog-pond" model of elite college admission proposed by Attewell, operationalizing high school academic context as the secondary school-average SAT score and number of Advanced Placement tests per high school senior. Data on more than 45,000 applications to three elite universities show that a high…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Schools, Educational Environment, Class Rank
Direct linkJoseph, Cynthia – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
This paper examines the notion of schooling and draws on the experiences of Malaysian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia. Using a critical approach to understandings of schooling, the author unpacks the links between the macro, micro and the personal in examining these girls' negotiations with discourses of schooling. The…
Descriptors: Females, Teaching Methods, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
