This study examines the relationship between chosen field of study and the race gap in college completion among students at elite colleges.
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ClearHigh School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment
1) To what degree do student attainment, academic and family background, and school factors vary in low, medium, and high SEC schools? 2) What is the total effect of socioeconomic composition (SEC) on each attainment outcome and to what degree do student factors, peer influences, and school effects mediate the SEC-attainment associations? 3) Is the effect of SEC consistent for students from different SES and ethnic backgrounds?
Trajectories of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Students by Race and Gender
This paper describes the outcomes for students matriculating in and migrating into electrical engineering (EE) and computer engineering (CpE).
Neighborhoods and Schools as Competing and Reinforcing Contexts for Educational Attainment
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author analyzes how school and neighborhood contexts are jointly related to high school and college graduation.
Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance
Examines how peer networks impact educational achievement and attainment.
To Choose or not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in Chicago
This article examines differences in graduation
rates between participants and nonparticipants of Chicago’s many public high school choice programs.
Test Scores, Dropout Rates, and Transfer Rates as Alternative Indicators of High School Performance
Looks at whether schools that are effective in raising test scores are also effective in reducing dropout and transfer rates, and focuses on which school characteristics predict these alternative indicators of performance.
Who Graduates in the South?
Who Graduates in the South?
Projections of 2003-2004: Supplemental Analyses Based on Findings from Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?
Computes the numbers of students expected to graduate from public high schools by the end of the 2003-2004 school year
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation?
2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism towards Chicanos?
3) What are the contemporary issues in Chicano segregation? 4) What has been or can be done to integrate Chicano students?