This study sought to systematically review the full body of research on test anxiety in primary
(elementary) school children aged 5–12 years. A comprehensive electronic and manual …

Despite the impressive record of advancing toward higher education, women are
substantially underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields …

Despite the increasingly popular perception that elite colleges' reliance on high-stakes
standardized tests to select students exacerbates social inequality, researchers have not …

National high-stakes exams are a fundamental structural feature of education systems
around the world. Despite their importance in shaping educational stratification, little is …

Drawing on content analysis of 517 New York Times news reports published between 1995
and 2016, the author examines the institutionalization of opioid responses in terms of …

In a world characterized by a formal global consensus on norms of “Education for All,”
countries face growing social pressures to rationalize their educational institutions around a …

The triumphant diffusion of the nation state as blueprint or model has impacted the world,
generating the “age of nation-states”(Weitz, 2019). This is also the “world educational …

Sociologists of education have long been interested in inequality in students' educational
achievement and attainment by family socioeconomic status (SES). Achievement (typically …

There has been ongoing controversy over the way high-stakes standardized exams impact
class inequality and race/ethnic diversity. However, relatively few studies have examined the …

Articles examining education have appeared in Social Forces (SF) from its first issue (Brooks
1922; Dawson 1922), though the journal's inclusion of the topic has ebbed and flowed …