The first three editions of Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of
Education were published by Allyn & Bacon. After they decided not to publish a fourth …

This paper aims to better understand the relationship between young people's aspirations
towards education and jobs, and the context in which they are formed, especially to …

How consequential is family socioeconomic status for maintaining plans to get a bachelor's
degree during the transition to adulthood? This article examines persistence and change in …

Background/Context Schools have attempted to address stratification in black and Latino
students' access to higher education through extensive reform initiatives, including those …

Although research indicates that students with immigrant backgrounds often have higher
educational aspirations than students without immigrant backgrounds at the same …

Though most extant research suggests that educational expectations are adopted early in
life and stabilize by adolescence, recent research has begun to challenge this assumption …

Gender gaps in educational expectations and postsecondary enrollment are well studied,
but few scholars have investigated the extent to which students realize or fail to realize their …

Most students experience expectation violations during their academic career, such as
unexpected failed tests. However, contradictory evidence does not always result in …

Background/Context: The “college-for-all” movement has guided education reform efforts
over the last few decades. Of college-for-all adopters, the “no-excuses” charter school model …

This paper investigates early employment influences on postsecondary expectations and
enrolment for working men and women who have recently completed high school in the …