Despite their egalitarian ethos, schools are social sorting machines, creating categories that
serve as the foundation of later life inequalities. In this review, we apply the theory of …

The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent
years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of …

This study reviews literature on racially equitable admissions practices relevant to graduate
programs in STEM. Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores correlate more strongly with race …

Institutions share customs, practices, and purposes (Weick 1979; Thoenig 2003; Greenwood
et al. 2008). In sociological terms, institutions are established norms around concepts or …

RESUMO Há, no discurso oficial acerca do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) e do
Sistema de Seleção Unificada (Sisu), uma ideia central que se destaca: o Enem é uma das …

Students are embedded in intersecting structural and cultural contexts that differentially
constrain and enable their opportunities and aspirations. The educational experiences of …

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo compreender as estratégias adotadas pelos bolsistas
pernambucanos do Programa Universidade Para Todos (ProUni) e seus familiares, numa …

This study examines the determinants of attitudes towards undocumented immigrant
students’ access to higher education, an area that has received little attention in the …

The massification of national systems of higher education in recent decades and the rapid
increase in the number of students have raised widening participation for students from …

In 1916, tertiary education was hardly a visible blip on the educational radar screen but now,
nearly a hundred years later, the tertiary system has drastically changed and expanded and …