Despite their egalitarian ethos, schools are social sorting machines, creating categories that
serve as the foundation of later life inequalities. In this review, we apply the theory of …

A goal of any educational measure is to improve students' capability to retain teaching
content. In this paper, we investigate the potential of gamification to foster knowledge …

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 …

" What are the most effective methods to code and analyze data for a particular study? This
thoughtful and engaging book reviews the selection criteria for coding and analyzing any set …

Sexism is gender-based prejudice or discrimination. As with other forms of prejudice and
discrimination, it functions to maintain status and power differences between groups in …

Literacy and mathematics are necessary skills that for different reasons unfortunately not
everybody acquires sufficiently. In OECD countries there is also a gender gap; boys lag …

Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality
has been largely invisible as a population-level axis of academic inequality. Taking …

We estimate male-female test score gaps in math and English language arts (ELA) for nearly
10,000 US school districts using state accountability data from third-through eighth-grade …

Individuals' favorite subjects in school can predetermine their educational and occupational
careers. If girls develop weaker preferences for science, technology, engineering, and math …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on
college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college …