In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

Informed by the theoretical lens of opportunity hoarding, this study considers whether STEM
postsecondary fields stand apart via the disproportionate exclusion of Black and Latina/o …

Educational systems with a high level of tracking and vocational orientation have been
shown to improve the allocation of school-leavers in the labor market. However, tracked …

Nonfinancial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic,
racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic …

Considering the current structural challenges that exist for students of color (SOC) in
accessing a higher education, an epistemology is needed that better represents the complex …

Research examining the effects of track placement in the USA has predominantly focused
on racial/socio-economic differences in access to learning opportunities. However, track …

Schools use an array of strategies to match curricula and instruction to students'
heterogeneous skills. Although generations of scholars have debated ''tracking''and its …

In an effort to understand teacher-student relationships much research has investigated how
teacher expectations of student performance in the classroom affect achievement growth …

Despite policy efforts to increase Advanced Placement (AP) course-taking among Black
students, gaps in AP course-taking persist. Many question whether offering more AP courses …

The consequences of educational differentiation have been at the centre of research in
sociology of education during the past decades. Processes of educational allocation have …