Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

Objective. The present study critically evaluates the assumption that parental involvement
benefits students' achievement regardless of their socioeconomic status (SES). Design. A …

Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in
parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are …

This study compares the early life experiences of kindergarteners in 1998 and 2010 using
two nationally representative data sets. We find that (a) young children in the later period are …

A growing body of evidence supports the contention of scholarly culture theory that
immersing children in book-oriented environments benefits their later educational …

A growing body of research has examined how cultural capital, recently broadened to
include not only high-status cultural activities but also a range of different parenting …

Prior research has not examined how much of the socioeconomic status (SES) advantage
on schooling outcomes is related to participation in extracurricular activities. The authors …

Scholars routinely use cultural capital theory in an effort to explain class differences in
academic success but often overlook the key concept of habitus. Rich, longstanding debates …

The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal
model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational …