Support for all forms of school choice—public school choice, charter schools, and public-
private choice—has been growing in recent years. Arguments in favor of greater choice rest …

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A
bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some …

In this paper we measure the effect of Catholic high school attendance on educational
attainment and test scores. Because we do not have a good instrumental variable for …

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and
expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data …

This study examines the relationships between participating in learning communities and
student engagement in a range of educationally purposeful activities of first-year and senior …

Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses—and newspaper
opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 …

The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by
incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its …

When researchers investigate how school policies, practices, or climates affect student
outcomes, they use multilevel, hierarchical data. Though methodologists have consistently …

A relatively neglected problem is how individuals derive social capital from more than one
context and the extent to which they benefit from the capital in each. We examine whether …

American society is more diverse now than at any previous time (Keller, 2001). It is no
surprise, then, that knowledgeable observers both inside and outside the academy say that …