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Ellen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2025
Given the dramatic risks and rewards to different graduate pathways, it is imperative to understand disparities in access to the highest levels of education. This paper responds to a tension between the traditional understanding that parents' education ceases to influence children's educational trajectories after college and the more recent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Parent Child Relationship
Carnoy, Martin; García, Emma – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
A founding ideal of American democracy is that merit, not accident of birth, should determine individuals' income and social status. Schools have assumed a major role in judging key elements of merit among young people--namely, academic skills, hard work, self-discipline, and cooperative behavior. Schools do so mainly by evaluating students in a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students, Low Income Students
Sadowski, Michael, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, "Who am I?" Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability can complicate this question for young people, affecting their schoolwork and their relationships with teachers, family, and peers. This new edition of "Adolescents at…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Multiple Intelligences, Race, Social Class

Thomas, Melvin E.; Hughes, Michael – American Sociological Review, 1986
Blacks scored consistently lower than whites on measures of psychological well-being and quality of life, and the differences remained constant for the period 1972 to 1985. Therefore race remains a significant determinant of psychological well-being and quality of life. Interpretations of these findings are offered. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Blacks, Economic Opportunities, Individual Power
Logan, John R. – 2003
This paper uses data from the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and the Census 2000 Supplemental Survey to examine how U.S. cities are being reshaped by immigration. Overall, immigrants have a similar socioeconomic profile to that of persons of the same race/ethnicity born in the United States. Among African Americans, immigrants are doing better…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethnic Distribution, Immigrants, Immigration
Banks, Vera J.; And Others – 1977
Prepared cooperatively by the Bureau of the Census and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. DeparLment of Agriculture, this document presents narrative and tabular data on: demographic and social characteristics of the farm population; economic characteristics of the farm population; revision of farm population processing procedures; and…
Descriptors: Age, Agriculture, Birth Rate, Census Figures
Allen, Henriette L.; Tadlock, James A. – 1987
This report describes various components of the process of disaggregating student achievement data and provides examples of each component. Information is provided to allow school districts to conduct their own school effectiveness evaluation. Results of the California Achievement Tests form one of the bases of the analysis. The underlying…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Douglass, John; Caspary, Kyra – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2004
During the spring of 2002 and 2003, a team of faculty and institutional researchers conducted an innovative web-based survey on the undergraduate experience at all eight undergraduate campuses of the University of California. This report provides the first formal presentation of preliminary findings from that survey and discusses potential areas…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Research Universities, Student Experience, Learning Experience