Students enter school with a vast range of individual differences, resulting from the complex
interplay between genetic dispositions and unequal environmental conditions. Schools thus …

As income inequality in the United States has reached an all‐time high, commentators from
across the political spectrum warn about the social implications of these economic changes …

This study used a prospective longitudinal sample of American children from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth …

Where do parent-teacher associations (PTAs) and other similar school-linked nonprofits
form? What role do PTAs play in distributing educational opportunities between and within …

In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black
students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical …

The labeling hypothesis argues that mixed-ability classrooms foster the academic self-
concept of students with low academic achievement because they lose their negative track …

Does stunted upward mobility in an educational system impede beneficial psychological
processes of learning? We predicted that growth mindsets of intelligence, a well-established …

Attainment grouping is a prevalent yet controversial practice, used in most English schools
and on the rise internationally, despite evidence that it is detrimental to the majority of pupils …

Despite extensive research on attainment grouping, the impact of attainment grouping on
pupil attainment remains poorly understood and contested. This paper presents evidence …

In this paper the authors examine the role the Dutch gymnasium continues to play in the
institutional maintenance of educational inequality. To that end they examine the relational …