Proposes that fields of study supply four types of resources to students: (1) cultural; (2) economic; (3) communicative; and (4) technical. Draws on data from a Dutch survey in which scales were developed to measure the prevalence of these types of resources across eleven fields of study. (CMK)

Presents a study in which the attachment and engagement of students from different racial-ethnic groups was examined and whether properties of schools affected these outcomes. Finds differences across racial-ethnic groups in terms of attachment and engagement by exploring models from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (CMK)

Demonstrates an approach that places regression modeling strategies within a specific and well-developed framework for thinking about causality. Focuses on the Catholic school effect on learning. Provides propensity-score matching estimates of the Catholic school effect for the Catholic schooled to supplement estimates obtained by regression…

Compares the degree to which educational attainment and cognitive skill explain labor force outcomes, both in occupational status and earnings. Reveals that educational attainment and cognitive skill contribute independently in subsamples of whites, blacks, and Hispanics but in different ways and degrees. Includes references. (CMK)

Investigates the role of political factors in the allocation of educational opportunities in state-socialist Czechoslovakia. Indicates that educational reforms introduced after the communist seizure of power in 1948 reduced inequalities in the allocation of schooling at the secondary level but not at the tertiary level. (CMK)

Examines the relationship between school restructuring on mathematics achievement across categories of school socioeconomic status. Raises questions about the suitability of defining restructuring in terms of any specific reform agenda. Indicates the need for caution regarding the broad implementation of such an agenda in disadvantaged schools.…

Examines the impact of parental wealth on their children's educational attainment using data from the 1984 Panel Study of Income Dynamics investigating the educational outcomes of the children in 1995. Demonstrates that parental wealth, as measured by net worth, has a strong nonlinear effect on the postsecondary schooling of offspring. (CMK)

Discusses the limitations of "The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard Work Help Students to 'Make the Grade'?" by William Rau and Ann Durand. States that it is partly a replication of the author's research, performed with three colleagues, on the association between the amount of studying by students and their grades. (CMK)

Responds to the article "Students' Effort and Reward in College Settings" by Howard Schuman. States that there were two reasons why the author and Ann Durand did not copy Schuman et al.'s research design: (1) key questions on study hours contains serious flaws; and (2) the research lacks a theory. (CMK)

Reviews contributing factors of uneven absorption and educational achievement in second generation immigrants, primarily from Asia and Latin America. Argues factors are external and include economic opportunities, racial and ethnic status, group reception, and intrinsic factors like human and social capital, family structure, community…

Compares three cases in Atlanta, GA, New York state, and Washington, DC, in which advocates fought to have an Afrocentric curriculum implemented in public schools' social studies and history classes. Examines the influences of six local organizational factors on the proposed curricular changes. (CMK)

Examines how parental cultural capital contributes to children's educational attainment in the Netherlands, emphasizing participation in beaux arts and reading behavior. Explores the claims of cultural reproduction theory and cultural mobility theory on the interaction of parents' educational background and their cultural capital. Discusses the…

Using the third wave of the Philadelphia Teen Survey, estimates cross-classified two-level models to see how much between-census tract and between-school variability exists in the timing of youth's sexual initiation. Attempts to assess the extent that race and normative environments of schools account for between-school variability in the timing…

Argues that the key to understanding the relationship between gender parity in educational attainment and in the labor market lies in the different distributions of women and men across fields within higher education. Reports analyses for a range of countries from 1965 through 1990 discussing the findings in detail. (Contains references.) (CMK)

Demonstrates how "academic ethic" (a student world view that emphasizes diligent, daily, and sober study) can be operationalized and measured. Provides evidence for its existence among students at Illinois State University. Finds a relationship between methodical, disciplined study and academic performance. (Contains references.) (CMK)