A century of educational inequality in the United States
First, Fig. 3 shows that, toward the middle of the century, there was a great U-turn in collegiate inequality. Inequalities fell rapidly for cohorts born in the early to mid-1950s, then bottomed out until the mid-1960s, before ultimately rising steeply for cohorts born from the mid-1960s onward.
Full article: Socio-economic inequality and education
Inequality in education has always been a central theme of the Oxford Review of Education.The very first issue of the journal, in March 1975, directly addressed the issue of 'Equality and education', presenting eight essays from widely read authors of the time, including James Coleman, and from fields such as sociology, psychology, child development and education.
Education, inequality and social justice: A critical analysis applying
Measuring inequality using Sen's concepts of capabilities and functionings will illuminate pathways for addressing some of the most prevalent and deep inequalities that currently dampen individual aspiration and capability formation. Innovative pedagogies are called for that seek to work more collaboratively than competitively and that ...
Full article: Gender and Intersecting Inequalities in Education
Introduction. Girls' education and gender inequalities associated with education were areas of major policy attention before the COVID-19 pandemic, and remain central to the agendas of governments, multilateral organisations and international NGOs in thinking about agendas to build back better, more equal or to build forward (Save the Children Citation 2020; UN Women Citation 2021; UNESCO ...
Do Schools Reduce or Exacerbate Inequality? How the Associations
Given that these data will be widely used to address questions of inequality, this article seeks to raise awareness of the implicit assumptions and methodological habits that underlie these two research strands. ... Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 19, 53-75. Google Scholar.
Tracking inequalities in education around the globe
Tracking inequalities in education around the globe. Tools have been developed to project inequalities in education around the world to 2030. They reveal that overall inequality will decline, but ...
Full article: Comparative perspectives on educational inequalities in
Inequality in opportunities for education. In general, the educational opportunities of children in disadvantaged families are unequal, that is, the chances to succeed are smaller for them as compared to non-disadvantaged groups (Delhaxhe et al., Citation 2009; Engle et al., Citation 2011; OECD, Citation 2012) and research has indicated that risk factors act cumulatively (Atzaba-Poria, Pike ...
Combining perspectives in multidisciplinary research on inequality in
Inequality in education receives growing attention in academic research across disciplines. Each discipline has its own theoretical and methodological traditions, resulting in a wide range of ...
The "New Racism" of K-12 Schools: Centering ...
In consonance with the theme of this volume, "Disrupting Inequality Through Education Research," we begin by introducing our rationale for centering scholarship that takes a structural analysis of racism (Ladson-Billings, 1998). Guided by our research questions, we narrowed over 4,000 education studies from the last decade that focus on ...
The shape of educational inequality
To explore the shape of educational inequality, we consider a number of different models for how student capital might be distributed. Each model represents a universe with plausible educational behavior that leads to a particular distribution of student capital. Graphical comparison of the models is shown in Fig. 1.
Sharp increase in inequality in education in times of the COVID-19
The COVID-19-pandemic forced many countries to close schools abruptly in the spring of 2020. These school closures and the subsequent period of distance learning has led to concerns about increasing inequality in education, as children from lower-educated and poorer families have less access to (additional) resources at home. This study analyzes differences in declines in learning gains in ...
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight
In their widely cited study, Shavit and Blossfeld report stability of socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment over much of the 20th century in 11 out of 13 countries. This article outlines reasons why one might expect to find declining class inequalities in educational attainment, and, using a large data set, the authors analyze educational inequality among cohorts born in the ...
(PDF) Educational Inequality
behavior ( Lochner 2020), and greater civic participation (Lochner 2011).1. The essential economic role of education implies that unequal education can be. a driver of unequal outcomes between ...
Connecting rights and inequality in education: openings for change
Rights and Inequality helped to contribute to change because it was produced alongside policy and political movements that made use of it and went beyond it. Together with The Myth of Equality (Roper, 1970), Rights and Inequality provided a philosophical and empirical reference point for the Karmel Review of education funding (Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission & Karmel ...
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in ...
We study the contribution of students' circumstances to inequality of opportunity in educational achievement (IOpE) in Western Europe and explore the role of intermediate channelling variables in translating differences in circumstances into educational inequalities. Using the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database, we find that differences in households ...
Growing Wealth Gaps in Education
Prior Research on Trends in Educational Inequality. The study of cohort trends in socioeconomic inequality in education has been an active area of empirical investigation for several decades (e.g., Harding et al. 2004; Mare 1981; Shavit and Blossfeld 1993; Treiman 1970).Research in this area has investigated the changing relationship between educational attainment and a variety of indicators ...
Spatial inequality in higher education: a growing urban-rural
However, other aspects of inequality in education have also been thoroughly documented and analysed, ... social inequality, and rural sociology. He is the author of more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Acta Sociologica, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, Landscape Research, ...
Equality in education: An equality of condition perspective
Abstract. Transforming schools into truly egalitarian institutions requires a holistic and integrated approach. Using a robust conception of 'equality of condition', we examine key dimensions of equality that are central to both the purposes and processes of education: equality in educational and related resources; equality of respect and ...
Full article: Introduction to "Racial Inequality and Education
The authors in this special issue of The Educational Forum have taken on these complex issues, both to illuminate how schools are being affected by the larger trends occurring in American society (e.g., growing racial segregation, inequality, immigration, gentrification) and to offer, in some cases, recommendations for how these issues can be ...
Sharp increase in inequality in education in times of the COVID-19
The COVID-19-pandemic forced many countries to close schools abruptly in the spring of 2020. These school closures and the subsequent period of distance learning has led to concerns about increasing inequality in education, as children from lower-educated and poorer families have less access to (additional) resources at home.
Educational digital inequality: A meta-analysis of the relationship
A set of inclusion and exclusion criteria were established prior to the search for journal articles, to assess their validity and applicability. The first of these was a publication date of no earlier than 2001, when the digital inequality conceptual model was proposed. ... The issue of digital inequality in education has become increasingly ...
Disaggregated Public Spending, Income Inequality and its ...
This study aims to check the impact of disaggregated public spending and income inequality on economic growth within a panel of 24 developing countries from 1990 to 2017. We used second-generation methodologies to check the cointegration and cross-sectional dependency within the panel. The empirical estimations are being carried out using the augmented mean group (AMG) and common correlated ...
30 years on, South Africa still dismantling racism and apartheid's
Unequal access to education, unequal pay, segregated communities and massive economic disparities persists, much of it is reinforced by existing institutions and attitudes.
Intermediate Educational Transitions, Alignment, and Inequality in U.S
Her research examines organizational and institutional processes of inequality, particularly focusing on U.S. public higher education. She also is dedicated to translating academic research to policy and practice settings, having served as assistant director of evidence and policy in the Biden-Harris White House Office of Science and Technology ...
Protests Turn Violent at Yale
Administrators sit on their hands as a Jewish student is poked in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized.
UN report points to yawning gap of inequality in sexual and
FILE - A woman carries a her baby and a bucket of water in Harare on April 6, 2020. A new study says an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America, the U.N. population fund reported Wednesday, April 17, 2024, as it decried widening inequality in sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
The stratification of education systems and social background
In recent decades, there were several comparative studies on the effect of social background on educational attainment (e.g. Blossfeld et al., 2016).In trying to address differences in social inequality, scholars mainly focused their attention on the level of stratification of education systems or tracking (Bol and Van de Werfhorst, 2013; Brunello and Checchi, 2007; Hadjar and Gross, 2016 ...
Biden's new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid
FILE - House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx R-N.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. ...
Gender equality and girls' education: Investigating frameworks
The article draws on qualitative educational research across a diversity of low-income countries to examine the gendered inequalities in education as complex, ... International Journal of Educational Development 25(3): 333-48. Crossref. ... Public Education Spending and Income Inequality in Bangladesh.
The Myth of the Need for Diversity Among Subjects in ...
Roberts and colleagues focus on two aspects of racial inequality in psychological research, ... highly educated participants and one-sided communications to be more effective with individuals with lower levels of education. Thus, if they had conducted their research with samples of undergraduates, they would have concluded that two-sided ...
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First, Fig. 3 shows that, toward the middle of the century, there was a great U-turn in collegiate inequality. Inequalities fell rapidly for cohorts born in the early to mid-1950s, then bottomed out until the mid-1960s, before ultimately rising steeply for cohorts born from the mid-1960s onward.
Inequality in education has always been a central theme of the Oxford Review of Education.The very first issue of the journal, in March 1975, directly addressed the issue of 'Equality and education', presenting eight essays from widely read authors of the time, including James Coleman, and from fields such as sociology, psychology, child development and education.
Measuring inequality using Sen's concepts of capabilities and functionings will illuminate pathways for addressing some of the most prevalent and deep inequalities that currently dampen individual aspiration and capability formation. Innovative pedagogies are called for that seek to work more collaboratively than competitively and that ...
Introduction. Girls' education and gender inequalities associated with education were areas of major policy attention before the COVID-19 pandemic, and remain central to the agendas of governments, multilateral organisations and international NGOs in thinking about agendas to build back better, more equal or to build forward (Save the Children Citation 2020; UN Women Citation 2021; UNESCO ...
Given that these data will be widely used to address questions of inequality, this article seeks to raise awareness of the implicit assumptions and methodological habits that underlie these two research strands. ... Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 19, 53-75. Google Scholar.
Tracking inequalities in education around the globe. Tools have been developed to project inequalities in education around the world to 2030. They reveal that overall inequality will decline, but ...
Inequality in opportunities for education. In general, the educational opportunities of children in disadvantaged families are unequal, that is, the chances to succeed are smaller for them as compared to non-disadvantaged groups (Delhaxhe et al., Citation 2009; Engle et al., Citation 2011; OECD, Citation 2012) and research has indicated that risk factors act cumulatively (Atzaba-Poria, Pike ...
Inequality in education receives growing attention in academic research across disciplines. Each discipline has its own theoretical and methodological traditions, resulting in a wide range of ...
In consonance with the theme of this volume, "Disrupting Inequality Through Education Research," we begin by introducing our rationale for centering scholarship that takes a structural analysis of racism (Ladson-Billings, 1998). Guided by our research questions, we narrowed over 4,000 education studies from the last decade that focus on ...
To explore the shape of educational inequality, we consider a number of different models for how student capital might be distributed. Each model represents a universe with plausible educational behavior that leads to a particular distribution of student capital. Graphical comparison of the models is shown in Fig. 1.
The COVID-19-pandemic forced many countries to close schools abruptly in the spring of 2020. These school closures and the subsequent period of distance learning has led to concerns about increasing inequality in education, as children from lower-educated and poorer families have less access to (additional) resources at home. This study analyzes differences in declines in learning gains in ...
In their widely cited study, Shavit and Blossfeld report stability of socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment over much of the 20th century in 11 out of 13 countries. This article outlines reasons why one might expect to find declining class inequalities in educational attainment, and, using a large data set, the authors analyze educational inequality among cohorts born in the ...
behavior ( Lochner 2020), and greater civic participation (Lochner 2011).1. The essential economic role of education implies that unequal education can be. a driver of unequal outcomes between ...
Rights and Inequality helped to contribute to change because it was produced alongside policy and political movements that made use of it and went beyond it. Together with The Myth of Equality (Roper, 1970), Rights and Inequality provided a philosophical and empirical reference point for the Karmel Review of education funding (Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission & Karmel ...
We study the contribution of students' circumstances to inequality of opportunity in educational achievement (IOpE) in Western Europe and explore the role of intermediate channelling variables in translating differences in circumstances into educational inequalities. Using the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database, we find that differences in households ...
Prior Research on Trends in Educational Inequality. The study of cohort trends in socioeconomic inequality in education has been an active area of empirical investigation for several decades (e.g., Harding et al. 2004; Mare 1981; Shavit and Blossfeld 1993; Treiman 1970).Research in this area has investigated the changing relationship between educational attainment and a variety of indicators ...
However, other aspects of inequality in education have also been thoroughly documented and analysed, ... social inequality, and rural sociology. He is the author of more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Acta Sociologica, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, Landscape Research, ...
Abstract. Transforming schools into truly egalitarian institutions requires a holistic and integrated approach. Using a robust conception of 'equality of condition', we examine key dimensions of equality that are central to both the purposes and processes of education: equality in educational and related resources; equality of respect and ...
The authors in this special issue of The Educational Forum have taken on these complex issues, both to illuminate how schools are being affected by the larger trends occurring in American society (e.g., growing racial segregation, inequality, immigration, gentrification) and to offer, in some cases, recommendations for how these issues can be ...
The COVID-19-pandemic forced many countries to close schools abruptly in the spring of 2020. These school closures and the subsequent period of distance learning has led to concerns about increasing inequality in education, as children from lower-educated and poorer families have less access to (additional) resources at home.
A set of inclusion and exclusion criteria were established prior to the search for journal articles, to assess their validity and applicability. The first of these was a publication date of no earlier than 2001, when the digital inequality conceptual model was proposed. ... The issue of digital inequality in education has become increasingly ...
This study aims to check the impact of disaggregated public spending and income inequality on economic growth within a panel of 24 developing countries from 1990 to 2017. We used second-generation methodologies to check the cointegration and cross-sectional dependency within the panel. The empirical estimations are being carried out using the augmented mean group (AMG) and common correlated ...
Unequal access to education, unequal pay, segregated communities and massive economic disparities persists, much of it is reinforced by existing institutions and attitudes.
Her research examines organizational and institutional processes of inequality, particularly focusing on U.S. public higher education. She also is dedicated to translating academic research to policy and practice settings, having served as assistant director of evidence and policy in the Biden-Harris White House Office of Science and Technology ...
Administrators sit on their hands as a Jewish student is poked in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized.
FILE - A woman carries a her baby and a bucket of water in Harare on April 6, 2020. A new study says an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America, the U.N. population fund reported Wednesday, April 17, 2024, as it decried widening inequality in sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
In recent decades, there were several comparative studies on the effect of social background on educational attainment (e.g. Blossfeld et al., 2016).In trying to address differences in social inequality, scholars mainly focused their attention on the level of stratification of education systems or tracking (Bol and Van de Werfhorst, 2013; Brunello and Checchi, 2007; Hadjar and Gross, 2016 ...
FILE - House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx R-N.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. ...
The article draws on qualitative educational research across a diversity of low-income countries to examine the gendered inequalities in education as complex, ... International Journal of Educational Development 25(3): 333-48. Crossref. ... Public Education Spending and Income Inequality in Bangladesh.
Roberts and colleagues focus on two aspects of racial inequality in psychological research, ... highly educated participants and one-sided communications to be more effective with individuals with lower levels of education. Thus, if they had conducted their research with samples of undergraduates, they would have concluded that two-sided ...