This investigation examines the efficacy of multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) over fixed-effects models when performing intersectional studies. The research questions are as follows: (1) What are typical strata representation rates and outcomes on physics research-based assessments? (2) To what…

In the half century since the 1966 Coleman Report, scholars have yet to develop a consensus regarding the relationship between schools and inequality. The Coleman Report suggested that schools play little role in generating achievement gaps, but social scientists have identified many ways in which schools provide better learning environments to…

Large achievement gaps exist between high- and low-income students and between black and white students. This article explores one explanation for such gaps: income segregation between school districts, which creates inequality in the economic and social resources available in advantaged and disadvantaged students' school contexts. Drawing on…

Using data from the 2000 Public Use Sample of the U.S. census, this research examined how estimates of school enrollment and school-work patterns among Mexican-origin adolescents are affected by including or excluding young immigrants who never enrolled in U.S. schools. The analysis demonstrates that a nontrivial share of adolescents who were born…

Social network analysis can enrich school-based research on children's peer relationships. Unfortunately, accurate network analysis requires near-complete data on all students and is underutilized in school-based research because of low rates of parental consent. This article advocates Krackhardt's cognitive social structures (CSS) as a solution…

The early career attainments of a large, national sample of noncollege educated workers are considered from a dual labor market perspective. The analysis considers both the kinds of workers selected initially into secondary sector employment and the consequences of being so situated for a variety of indicators of market success, including…

Addresses two problems concerning the conceptualization of the differences between withdrawals by students in good standing at universities and failing withdrawals. First, log-linear methods were used to analyze determinants of withdrawal. Second, the theory was examined which maintained that withdrawals in good standing are incongruent with the…

This paper reports on data gathered during the 1960 student movement activities to determine how college students construct reality. The objectives are to study: 1) how willing students are to accept a definition of a situation deviant from the officially sponsored definition; and 2) the effectiveness and influence of different rhetorical styles.…

The author of Inequality'' attempts to clear up some misconceptions about the contents of his book and rebuts arguments concerning the use of path analysis. (Author/KM)

The author argues that he properly used the National Longitudinal Survey sample in his analysis which concluded that private schooling is not superior to public schooling with regard to student's academic achievement, a conclusion contrary to that reached by Coleman and Hoffer in their analysis of the same sample. (RM)

Both black and white children's reactions to black adults are studies for how the status characteristics of adults and children affect adults' ability to raise a child's expectations of his own performance on school-like tasks. (Author/KM)

Data from 115 colleges and universities are used to analyze the organizational conditions associated with the institutionalization of new academic programs. (Author)

The historical relationship between technical change and school expansion has been dependent on a particular institutional structure of schooling. However, without the causal role of technical change at critical periods, the continual spiral of school expansion could not have been sustained. (RM)

The extent to which one may be confident of Jencks' analysis of data in Inequality'' is examined. (Author/KM)