G93.2307
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION 
Professor Caroline Hodges Persell
Department of Sociology, New York University
Spring 2002

Course Description and Reading Assignments

Revised last 1/23/02

This course will focus heavily on where different groups (whether racial/ethnic, gender, or social class) experience disparate educational achievements and attainments, and consider the explanations that have been offered for such patterned disparities.  After considering a few overviews of the field of sociology of education, we will examine evidence for educational achievement and attainment by race, class, and gender in the U.S. and a range of other countries.  We will analyze competing explanations for the varied outcomes and relevant evidence bearing on them, and consider further research that needs to be done.

Readings will include the following books ordered at the NYU book store:

Bowen, William G. and Derek Bok.  1998. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Brint, Steven.  1998.  Schools and Societies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Fischer, Claude S.  et al. 1996.  Inequality by Design.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.

Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips (Eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.  1998.

Other readings will be drawn from book chapters and journal articles from a variety of sources, including Sociology of Education, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review. Articles published more than five years ago in those journals and many others are available electronically via Jstor through the NYU Bobst library.   You need to log in either at NYU or through a proxy server.  Let me know if you have any questions about this.
 
Course requirements will include staying current with the readings, regular attendance, regular class participation, one-page papers on the readings, and a term project (handout to follow) to be reported on orally and in a final paper.  Your final grade will be generated as follows:  50% from your final project, 30% from your one-page papers, and 20% from your class participation.
 

1/23/02  First Class: Introduction to the Subject and the Course

I.  OVERVIEWS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Required Readings due 1/30 (* indicates Required Readings throughout the syllabus)

*Karabel, Jerome and A.H. Halsey, eds., Power and Ideology in Education, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 1-77, Introduction, "Educational Research: A Review and an Interpretation." [Sociology lounge]

*Bidwell, Charles E. and Noah E. Friedkin, "The Sociology of Education" Pp. 449-471 in Neil J. Smelser (ed.)  Handbook of Sociology, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988.  [Sociology lounge]

*Gamoran, Adam, Walter G. Secada, and Cara B. Marrett. 2000. "The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning." Pp. 37-63 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. [Lounge]

*Lynch, Kathleen. 2000. "Research and Theory on Equality and Education." Pp. 85-105 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum. [Lounge]

Required Readings due 2/6

*Brint, Steven.  1998.  Schooling and Societies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. [Book Store]

*Pallas, Aaron M. 2000. "The Effects of Schooling on Individual Lives." Pp. 499-525 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.  [Lounge]

II. VARIABLE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Required Readings due 2/13

*Alexander, Karl L. 2001. "The Clouded Crystal Ball:  Trends in Educational Stratification." Sociology of Education Extra Issue:169-177. [Lounge]
*Blank, Rebecca M. 2001. "An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race," Pp. 21-39 (Ch. 2) in Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, Eds.  America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Vol. I. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.  May be read free online at: http://www.nap.edu/books/030906838X/html/
*Ferguson, Ronald F. 2001. "Test-Score Trends Along Racial Lines, 1971 to 1996: Popular Culture and Community Academic Standards," Pp. 348-390 (Ch. 12) in Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, Eds., America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Vol. I.  Online (see above).
*Gamoran, Adam. 2001. "American Schooling and Educational Inequality: A Forecast for the 21st Century." Sociology of Education Extra Issue:135-153. [Lounge]
*Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips.  1998. "The Black-White Test Score Gap: An Introduction," Pp. 1-51 in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, Eds., The Black-White Test Score Gap.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Book Store.  May be online at Brookings.

III. INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS

Required readings due 2/20:
 
*Blossfeld, Hans-Peter and Yossi Shavit, “Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries.”  Pp. 1-23 in Yossi Shavit and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (Eds.), Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.  1993.  [Lounge]
*Heyneman, Stephen P and William A. Loxley. 1983. "The Effects of Primary-School Quality on Academic Achievement across Twenty-Nine High- and Low-Income Countries." American Journal of Sociology 88:1162-94.  Jstor (see link above).
*Ishida, Hiroshi, Walter Muller, and John M. Ridge.  1995. "Class Origin, Class Destination, and Education: A Cross-National Study of Ten Industrial Nations." American Journal of Sociology 101(1):145-93.  Jstor.

Other relevant readings for 2/20:

Heyneman, Stephen P. 1977. "Influences on Academic Achievement: A Comparison of Results from Uganda and More Industrial Societies." Sociology of Education 11:245-59.
Hout, Michael and Daniel P. Dohan. 1996. "Two Paths to Educational Opportunity: Class and Educational Selection in Sweden and the United States." in Can Education Be Equalized?  The Swedish Case in Comparative Perspective, edited by R. Erikson and J. O. Jonsson. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Muller, Walter and Wolfgang Karle. 1993. "Social Selection in Educational Systems in Europe." European Sociological Review 9:1-23.
Shavit, Yossi and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. 1993. Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Shavit, Yossi and Walter Muller. 2000. "Vocational Secondary Education, Tracking, and Social Stratification." Pp. 437-452 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

IV. CLASS AND EDUCATION

Required reading due 2/27:

*Catsambis, Sophia and Andrew Beveridge.  2001.  "Neighborhood and School Influences on the Family Life and Mathematics Performance of Eighth-Grade Students."  Available on-line at: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/Reports/reports54.pdf
*Gamoran, Adam. 1987. "The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities." Sociology of Education 60:135-155.  Jstor.
*Lucas, Samuel R.  2001. "Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects." American Journal of Sociology 106:1642-90.  [Lounge]
*Lucas, Samuel R. and Aaron D. Good. 2001. "Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility." Sociology of Education 74:139-56.  [Lounge]

Required readings due 3/6:

*Mayer, Susan E. 2001. "How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children's Educational Attainment?" American Journal of Sociology 107:1-32.  [Lounge]
*Mehan, Hugh.  1992. "Understanding Inequality in Schools: The Contribution of Interpretive Studies," Sociology of Education 65 (January 1992): 1-20.  Jstor.
*Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sorensen. 1999. "Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman's Social Capital Explanation of School Effects." American Sociological Review 64:661-81.  [Lounge]

Other relevant reading for 2/27 and 3/6:

Battistich, Victor, Daniel  Solomon, Doug-Il Kim, Marilyn Watson, and Eric Schaps. 1995. "Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis." American Educational Research Journal 32:627-658.
Berends, Mark. 1994. "Educational Stratification and Students' Social Bonding to School." British Journal of Sociology of Education 16:327-51.
Breen, Richard and Jan O. Jonsson. 2000. "Analyzing Educational Careers: A Multinomial Transition Model." American Sociological Review 65:754-772.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Greg J. Duncan, and J. Lawrence (eds.) Aber. 1997. Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, vol. I. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela K. Klebanov, and Naomi Sealand. 1993. "Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development?" American Journal of Sociology 99:353-395.
Crane, Jonathan. 1991. "The Epidemic Theory of Ghettos and Neighborhood Effects on Dropping Out and Teenage Childbearing." American Journal of Sociology 96:1226-59.  Jstor.
Elliott, Marta. 1998. "School Finance and Opportunities to Learn: Does Money Well Spent Enhance Students' Achievement?" Sociology of Education 71:223-45.
Epps, Edgar G. 1995. "Race, Class, and Educational Opportunity: Trends in the Sociology of Education." Sociological Forum 10:593-608.
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr., Thomas D. Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles, Glen H. Jr. Elder, and Arnold Sameroff. 2000. Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hanushek, Eric A. 1996. "School Resources and Student Performance." Pp. 585-605 in Does Money Matter? edited by G. Burtless. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Kingston, Paul W. 2001. "The Unfulfilled Promise of Cultural Capital Theory." Sociology of Education Special Issue:88-99.
Lareau, Annette.  1989.  Home Advantage, New York: Falmer, 1989. [LC225.3.L37]
Lucas, Samuel R. 1996. "Selective Attrition in a Newly Hostile Regime: The Case of 1980 Sophomores." Social Forces 75:511-33.
—. 1999. Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.
Rosenbaum, James E., Shazia Rafiullah Miller, and Melinda Scott Krei. 1996. "Gatekeeping in an Era of More Open Gates: High School Counselors' Views of Their Influence on Students' College Plans." American Journal of Education 104:257-79.
Tienda, Marta. 1991. "Poor People and Poor Places: Deciphering Neighborhood Effects on Poverty Outcomes." Pp. 224-62 in Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology, edited by J. Huber. Newberry, CA: Sage.

3/13 SPRING BREAK

V. RACE AND EDUCATION

Required reading due 3/20

*Fischer, Claude S.  et al. 1996.  Inequality by Design.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.  Book Store.
*Goyette, Kimberly and Yu Xie, 1999,  "Educational Expectations of Asian American Youths: Determinants and Ethnic Differences."  Sociology of Education 72 (January): 22-36.  [Lounge]
*Hallinan, Maureen T. 2001. "Sociological Perspectives on Black-White Inequalities in American Schooling." Sociology of Education Extra Issue:50-70.  [Lounge]
*Ogbu, John U.  1994.  "Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists."  Teachers College Record 96(2): 264-98.  [Lounge]
*Portes, Alejandro and Dag MacLeod.  1996. "Educational Progress of Children of Immigrants: The Roles of Class, Ethnicity, and School Context," Sociology of Education 69 (October):255-275. Jstor.
*Ainsworth-Darnell, James W. and Douglas B. Downey. 1998. "Assessing the Oppositional Culture Explanation for Racial/Ethnic Differences in School Performance." American Sociological Review 63:536-553.  [Lounge]
 

Required reading due 3/27:

*Bowen, William G. and Derek C. Bok. 1998. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  Book Store.
*Grissmer, David et al.  1998.  "Why Did the Black-White Score Gap Narrow in the 1970s and 1980s?" Ch. 6, pp. 182-228 in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.  1998.  Book Store and online.
*Hedges,  Larry V. and Amy Nowell.  1998.  "Black-White Test Score Convergence since 1965." Ch. 5, pp. 149-181 in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.  1998.  Book Store and may be on-line.
*Steele, Claude M.  and Joshua Aronson.  1998.  "Stereotype Threat and the Test Performance of Academically Successful African Americans."  Ch. 11, pp. 401-27, in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Book Store and may be on-line.
*Wilson, William Julius. 1998.  "The Role of the Environment in the Black-White Test Score Gap." Ch. 15, pp. 501-10 in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Book Store and may be on-line.

Other relevant reading for 3/20 and 3/27:
 
Allen, Walter R., Edgar G. Epps, and Nesha Z. Haniff. 1991. "College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and in Historically Black Public Universities." Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Armor, David J. 1992. "Why is Black Educational Achievement Rising?" The Public Interest 108:65-80.
Armor, David J. 1996. "Race and Socioeconomic Effects on Academic Achievement." Unpublished paper.  Fairfax, VA: George Mason University.
Barajas, Heidi Lasley and Jennifer L. Pierce. 2001. "The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success among Latinas and Latinos in College." Gender & Society 15:859-878.
Barringer, Herbert R., David T. Takeuchi, and Peter Xenos. 1990. "Education, Occupational Prestige, and Income of Asian Americans." Sociology of Education 63:27-43.
Battistich, Victor, Daniel  Solomon, Doug-Il Kim, Marilyn Watson, and Eric Schaps. 1995.  "Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis." American Educational Research Journal 32:627-658.
Bernstein, Jared. 1995. Where's the Payoff?  The Gap Between Black Academic Progress and Economic Gains. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute.
Cameron, Stephen and James Heckman. 1992. "The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Whites and Hispanics." Chicago: University of Chicago.
Caplan, Nathan, Marcella H. Choy, and John K. Whitmore. 1991. Children of the Boat People: A Study of Educational Success. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Caplan, Nathan, Marcella H. Choy, and John K. Whitmore. 1992. "Indochinese Refugee Families and Academic Achievement." Scientific American:36-42.
Chen, Chuansheng and Harold Stevenson. 1995. "Motivation and Mathematics Achievement: A Comparative Study of Asian-American, Caucasian-American, and East Asian High School Students." Child Development 66:1215-34.
Clayton, O., et al. 1990. "Race Differences in College Attendance in the U.S.: Two Competing Theories." Canadian Journal of Education 15:245-263.
Conley, Dalton. 2001. "A Room with a View or a Room of One's Own?  Housing and Social Stratification." Sociological Forum 16:263-280.
Cook, Philip J. and Jens Ludwig.  1998.  "The Burden of 'Acting White': Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement?"  Ch. 10, pp. 375-400, in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, Eds.  The Black-White Test Score Gap.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.  Book Store, online.
Diaz-Soto, L. 1997. Language, Culture, and Power: Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Epps, Edgar G. 1995. "Race, Class, and Educational Opportunity: Trends in the Sociology of Education." Sociological Forum 10:593-608.
Farkas, George. 1996. Human Capital or Cultural Capital?  Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District. New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Feagin, Joe, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani. 1996. The Agony of Education. New York: Routledge.
Ferguson, Ann A. 2000. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Ferguson, Ronald F. 1991. "Racial Patterns in How School and Teacher Quality Affect Achievement and Earnings." Challenge: A Journal of Research on Black Men 2:3-35.
Foley, Douglas A., Bradley A. Levinson, and Janise Hurtig. 2000-2001. "Anthropology Goes Inside: The New Educational Ethnography of Ethnicity and Gender." Pp. 37-98 in Review of Research in Education, vol. 25, edited by W. G. Secada. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
Fordham, Signithia. 1993. "'Those Loud Black Girls': (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender 'Passing' in the Academy." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 24:3-32.
Fordham, Signithia. 1996. Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Fordham, Signithia..  1988.  "Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success: Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory?" Harvard Educational Review 58: 54-84.  Bin.
Gee, James Paul. 2000-2001. "Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education." Pp. 99-125 in Review of Research in Education, vol. 25, edited by W. G. Secada. Washington, DC: AERA.
Gibson, Margaret A.  1997. "Exploring and Explaining the Variability: Cross-National Perspectives on the School Performance of Minority Students." Anthropology and Education 28:318-329.
Gibson, Margaret A. 1997. "Ethnicity and School Performance: Complicating the Immigrant/Involuntary Minority Typology." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 28:?
Gibson, Margaret A. 1988. Accomodation without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High School. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Gibson, Margaret A. and John U. Ogbu. 1991. Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities. New York: Garland.
Gillborn, P. 1990. Race, Ethnicity, and Education. London: Unwin Hyman.
Hallinan, Maureen T. 1996. "Race Effects on Students' Track Mobility in High School." Social Psychology of Education 1:1-24.
Hallinan, Maureen T. 1998. "Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence." Ohio State Law Journal 59:733-54.
Hallinan, Maureen T.  2000. "On the Linkages between Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociology of Education." Pp. 65-84 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Hao, Lingxin and Melissa Bonstead-Bruns. 1998. "Parent Child Differences in Educational Expectations and the Academic Achievement of Immigrant and Native Students." Sociology of Education 71:175-98.
Hauser, Robert M. and Min-Hsiung Huang. 1996. "Trends in Black-White Test-Score Differentials." Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper no. 1110-96, Madison, WI.
Hemmings, Annette. 1996. "'Conflicting Images': Being Black and a Model High School Student." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 27:20-50.
Hirschman, Charles and Morrison G. Wong. 1986. "The Extraordinary Educational Attainment of Asian-Americans: A Search for Historical Evidence and Explanations." Social Forces 65:1-27.
Hout, Michael and William R. Morgan. 1975. "Race and Sex Variation in the Causes of the Expected Attainments of High School Seniors." American Journal of Sociology 81:364-94.
Hurh, Won M. and Kwang C. Kim. 1989. "The 'Success' Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, and Its Practical and Theoretical Implications." Ethnic and Racial Studies 12:512-38.
Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan and Darlene Eleanor York. 1993. "Teacher Perspectives: Why do African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese Students Fail?" Pp. 161-193 in Handbook of Schooling in Urban America, edited by S. W. Rothstein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Robert Crosnoe, and Glen H. Jr. Elder. 2001. "Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity." Sociology of Education 74:318-340.
Kane, Emily W. and Else K. Kyyro. 2001. "For Whom Does Education Enlighten?  Race, Gender, Education, and Beliefs about Social Inequality." Gender & Society 15:710-733.
Kane, Thomas. 1994. "College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background and the Returns to Education." Journal of Political Economy 102:878-911.
Kao, Grace and Marta Tienda. 1995. "Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth." Social Science Quarterly 75:1-19.
Kao, Grace, Marta Tienda, and Barbara Schneider. 1996. "Racial and Ethnic Variation in Academic Performance." Pp. 263-297 in Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization, vol. 11.
Kao, Grace. 1995. "Asian Americans as Model Minorities?  A Look at their Academic Performance." American Journal of Education 103:121-59.
Kingston, Paul W. 2001. "The Unfulfilled Promise of Cultural Capital Theory." Sociology of Education:88-99.
Ladson-Billings, G. 1995. The Dream Keepers.  New York: Jossey-Bass.
Lee, Stacey J. 1994. "Behind the Model-Minority Stereotype: Voices of the High- and Low-Achieving Asian American Students." Anthropology and Education  Quarterly 25:413-429.
Lee, Stacey J. 1996. Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth. New York: Teachers College Press.
Lee, Yong Sook. 1991. "Koreans in Japan and the United States." Pp. 131-168 in Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities, edited by Margaret A. Gibson and John U. Ogbu. New York: Garland.
Lomawaima, T. 1994. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Lundy, Garvey F. and Glenn Firebaugh. 2000. "Peer Relations and School Resistance in American High Schools:  Does Oppositional Culture Apply to Race or to Gender?" in Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association.
Matute-Bianchi, Maria E. 1986. "Ethnic Identities and Patterns of School Success and Failure among Mexican-Descent and Japanese-American Students in a California High School: an Ethnographic Study." American Journal of Education 94:233-55.
Mayer, Susan E. 1991. "How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teen Fertility Rates?" Pp. 79-102 in The Urban Underclass, edited by C. Jencks and P. Peterson. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
McCarthy, Cameron and Warren Crichlow (Eds.). 1993. Race, Identity, and Representation in Education. New York: Routledge.
Mickelson, Roslyn. 1990. "The Attitude-Achievement Paradox among Black Adolescents." Sociology of Education 63:44-61.
O'Connor, Carla. 1997. "Dispositions Toward (Collective) Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City: A Case Analysis of Six African-American High School Students." American Educational Research Journal 34:593-626.
O'Connor, Carla. 1999. "Race, Class, and Gender in America: Narratives of Opportunity Among Low-Income African American Youths." Sociology of Education 72:137-57.
O'Connor, Carla. 2000. "Thinking with History: Exploring the Effect of Time on the Process of Educational Resilience." in Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans.
O'Connor, Carla. 2001. "Making Sense of the Complexity of Social Identity in Relation to Achievement: A Sociological Challenge in the New Millennium." Sociology of Education Extra Issue:159-168.
Ogbu, John U. 1997. "African American Education:  A Cultural-Ecological Perspective." Pp. 234-50 in Black Families, edited by H. P. McAdoo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ogbu, John U. 1995. "Cultural Problems in Minority Education: Their Interpretations and Consequences--Part two." Urban Review 27:271-297.
Ogbu, John. 1986. "The Consequences of the American Caste System." Pp. 19-56 in The School Achievement of Minority Children, edited by U. Neisser. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ogbu, John. 1999. "Beyond Language: Ebonics, Proper English, and Identity in a Black-American Speech Community." American Educational Research Journal 36:147-184.
Orfield, Gary and Carole Ashkinaze. 1991. The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Orfield, Gary and Susan E. Eaton. 1996. Dismantling Desegregation. New York: New Press.
Ortiz, V. 1986. "Generational Status, Family Background, and Educational Attainment among Hispanic Youth an Non-Hispanic White Youth." in Latino College Students, edited by M. A. Olivas. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Ovando, C and P. McLaren. 1999. "The Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Crossfire." New York: McGraw-Hill.
Pallas, Aaron M., Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and M. Francis Stulka. 1994. "Ability-Group Effects: Instructional, Social, or Institutional?" Sociology of Education 67:27-46.
Perry, T. and L. Delpit. 1998. The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children. Boston: Beacon Press.
Plank, Stephen B. 2000. Finding One's Place: Teaching Styles and Peer Relations in Diverse Classrooms. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Polite, Vernon C. and James Earl (eds.) Davis. 1994. "Pedagogical and Contextual Issues Affecting African Males in School and Society." Journal of Negro Education 63:whole issue.
Portes, Alejandro. 1999. "Social and Psychological Factors in the Academic Achievement of Children of Immigrants: A Cultural Puzzle." American Educational Research Journal 36:489-507.
Reyes, P., J. Scribner, and A.P. Scribner. 1999. Lessons from High-Performing Hispanic Schools: Creating Learning Communities. New York: Teachers College Press.
Roscigno, Vincent J. 1998. "Race and the Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage." Social Forces 76:1033-60.
Roscigno, Vincent J. and James W. Ainsworth-Darnell. 1999. "Race, Cultural Capital, and Educational Resources: Persistent Inequalities and Achievement Returns." Sociology of Education 72:158-78.
Roscigno, Vincent J.. 2000. "Family/School Inequality and African-American/Hispanic Achievement." Social Problems 47:266-90.
Sanchirico, Andrew. 1991. "The Importance of Small Business Ownership in Chinese American Educational Achievement." Sociology of Education 64:293-304.
Schneider, Barbara and Yongsook Lee. 1990. "A Model for Academic Success: The School and Home Environment of East Asian Students." Anthropology and Education 21:283-99.
Slaughter, Diana T. and Edgar G. Epps. 1986. "The Home Environment and Academic Achievement of Black American Children and Youth: An Overview." Journal of Negro Education 56:3-20.
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T. and Barbara Schneider. 1986. "Newcomers: Blacks in Private Schools." Northwestern University, School of Education and Public Policy.
Solomon, R. Patrick. 1992. Black Resistance in High School. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Stanton-Salazar, R. 1997. "A Social Capital Framework for Understanding the Socialization of Ethnic Minority Children and Youths." Harvard Educational Review 67:1-39.
Stecher, Brian M. and George W. Bohrnstedt. 2000. "Class Size Reduction in California:  The 1998-99 Evaluation Findings." California Department of Education, Sacramento.
Steinberg, Laurence, Stanford M. Dornbush, and Bradford B. Brown. 1992. "Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Achievement." American Psychologist 47:723-729.
Suarez-Orozco, C. and M. Suarez-Orozco. 1997. Transformations: Immigration, Family Life and Achievement Motivation among Latino Adolescents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Sue, Stanley and Sumie Okazaki. 1990. "Asian-American Educational Achievement: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation." American Psychologist 45:913-20.
Tate, W. 1997. "Critical Race Theory and Education: History, Theory, and Implications." Pp. 191-243 in Review of Research in Education, vol. 22, edited by M. Apple. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 1999. "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations about Race. New York: Basic Books.
Villenas, S. and D. Deyhle. 1999. "Critical Race Theory and Ethnographies Challenging the Stereotypes: Latino Families, Schooling, Resilience and Resistance." Curriculum Inquiry 29:413-444.
Walker-Moffat, Wendy. 1995. The Other Side of the Asian American Success Story. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Weinstein, Rhona S., Sybil M. Madison, and Margaret R. Kuklinski. 1995. "Raising Expectations in Schooling: Obstacles and Opportunities for Change." American Educational Research Journal 32:121-59.
Wells, Amy Stuart and Robert L. Crain. 1997. Stepping Over the Color Line: African American Students in White Suburban Schools. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Wong, M.G. 1990. "The Education of White, Chinese, Filipino and Japanese Students: A Look at High School and Beyond." Sociological Perspectives 32:87-107.
Zsembik, Barbara A. and Daniel Llanes. 1996. "Generational Differences in Educational Attainment among Mexican Americans." Social Science Quarterly 77:363-374.
 

VI. GENDER AND EDUCATION

Required Reading due 4/3

*Baker, David P. and Deborah Perkins Jones. 1993. "Creating Gender Equality: Cross-national Gender Stratification and Mathematical Performance," Sociology of Education 66 (April): 91-103.  Jstor.
*Jacobs, Jerry.  1995. "Gender and Academic Specialties: Trends among Recipients of College Degrees in the 1980s," Sociology of Education 68 (April):81-98. Jstor.
*Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin. 1989. "Why Does Jane Read and Write So Well?  The Anomaly of Women's Achievement." Sociology of Education 62:47-63.  Jstor.
*Persell, Caroline Hodges, Sophia Catsambis, and Jr. Cookson, Peter W. 1992. "Differential Asset Conversion: Class and Gendered Pathways to Selective Colleges." Sociology of Education 65:208-225.  Jstor, Lounge.
*Persell, Caroline Hodges, Carrie James, Trivina Kang, and Karrie Snyder.  1999. "Gender and Education in Global Perspective.”  Pp. 407-440 in Janet S. Chafetz (ed.), Handbook on Gender Sociology.  New York: Plenum.  Handout.

Other Relevant Reading for 4/3:

Acker, Sandra.  Ed. 1994. Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching, and Feminism. Buckingham, England: Open University Press.
Barajas, Heidi Lasley and Jennifer L. Pierce. 2001. "The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success among Latinas and Latinos in College." Gender & Society 15:859-878.
Crawford, Mary and Mary McLeod. 1990. "Gender in the College Classroom: An Assessment of the 'Chilly Climate' for Women." Sex Roles 23:101-122.
Epstein, Debbie, Sarah O'Flynn, and David Telford. 2000-2001. ""Othering" Education: Sexualities, Silences, and Schooling." Pp. 127-179 in Review of Research in Education, vol. 25, edited by W. G. Secada. Washington, DC: AERA.
Ferree, Myra Marx and Elaine J. Hall, "Gender Stratification and Paradigm Change." American Sociological Review 65 (3): 475-481.
Finders, M. 1997. Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. New York: Teachers College Press.
Fine, M. 1993. "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire." Pp. 75-100 in Beyond Silenced Voices, edited by L. Weiss and M. Fine. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Harding, Sandra. 1987. "Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues." Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Holland, D. and M. Eisenhart. 1990. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
hooks, b. 1984. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press.
Hurtig, J. 1998. "Myths of "Fe"male Achievement." La Educacion: Inter-American Review of Educational Development 42:101-120.
Kane, Emily W. and Else K. Kyyro. 2001. "For Whom Does Education Enlighten?  Race, Gender, Education, and Beliefs about Social Inequality." Gender & Society 15:710-733.
Lee, Valerie E., Helen M. Marks, and Tina Byrd.  1994. "Sexism in Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary School Classrooms," Sociology of Education 67 (April):92-120.
Mac an Ghaill, M. 1994. The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities, and Schooling. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
McRobbie, A. 1992. Feminism and Youth Culture. London: Unwin Hyman.
Osborne, Rachel. 1995. "The Continuum of Violence against Women in Canadian Universities: Toward a New Understanding of the 'Chilly Climate'." Women's Studies International Forum 18:637-46.
Pascarella, Ernest and Elizabeth Whitt. 1999. "The 'Chilly Climate' for Women and Cognitive Outcomes in College." Journal of College Student Development 40:61-78.
Streitmatter, Janice. 1999. For Girls Only: Making a Case for Single Sex Schools. Albany: State University of New York Press.

VII. RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

Required Reading due 4/10

*Farkas, George, Robert P. Grobe, Daniel Sheehan, and Yuan Shuan. 1990. "Cultural Resources and School Success: Gender, Ethnicity, and Poverty Groups within an urban School District." American Sociological Review 55:127-142.  Jstor.
*Fordham, Signithia. 1993. "'Those Loud Black Girls': (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender 'Passing' in the Academy." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 24:3-32.  [Lounge]
*O'Connor, Carla. 1999. "Race, Class, and Gender in America: Narratives of Opportunity Among Low-Income African American Youths." Sociology of Education 72:137-57. [Lounge]

Other Relevant Reading for 4/10:

Luttrell, Wendy. 1989. "Working-Class Women's Ways of Knowing: Effects of Gender, Race, and Class." Sociology of Education 62:33-46.
Sacks, K. 1989. "Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender." American Ethnologist 16:534-550.
Tickamyer, A.R. and K.M. Blee. 1990. "The Racial Convergence Thesis in Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility." Social Science Quarterly 71:711-28.
Weiler, Jeanne Drysdale. 2000. Codes and Contradictions: Race, Gender Identity, and Schooling. Albany: State University of New York Press.

VIII. SCHOOLS  AND TEACHING

Required reading due 4/17:

*Elliott, Marta. 1998. "School Finance and Opportunities to Learn: Does Money Well Spent Enhance Students' Achievement?" Sociology of Education 71:223-45.  [Lounge]
*Fullilove, Robert E. and Philip Uri Treisman.  1990.  "Mathematics Achievement Among African American Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley: An Evaluation of the Mathematics Workshop Program," Journal of Negro Education 59 (3) Summer: 463-478.  Available electronically in Jstor through Bobst Library: http://www.jstor.org/
*Oakes, Jeannie, Amy Stuart Wells, Makeba  Jones, and Amanda Datnow. 1997. "Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform." Teachers College Record 98:482-510.  [Lounge]

Required reading due 4/24:

*Cohen, Elizabeth G. 2000. "Equitable Classrooms in a Changing Society." Pp. 265-283 in Handbook of the Sociology of Education, edited by M. T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum. [Lounge]
*Oickle, Eileen and Robert E. Slavin. 1981. "Effects of Cooperative Learning Teams on Student Achievement and Race Relations: Treatment by Race Interactions." Sociology of Education 54:174-180.  Jstor.
*Sharan, S. 1980. "Cooperative Learning in Small Groups: Recent Methods and Effects on Achievement, Attitudes, and Ethnic Relations." Review of Educational Research 50:241-271.  [Lounge]

Other Relevant Reading for 4/17 and 4/24:

Jacob, E. 1998. Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
—. 1999. "Context and Cognition: Implications for Educational Innovators and Anthropologists." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 28:3-21.
Johnson, E.W. and R.T. Johnson. 1981. "Effects of Cooperative and Individualistic Learning Experience on Interethnic Interaction." Journal of Educational Psychology 73:444-49.Levinson, B., Douglas A. Foley, and D. Holland. 1996. The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Mayer, Susan E. and David Knutson. 1999. "Does the Timing of Schooling Effect How Much Children Learn?" Pp. 79-102 in Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter, edited by S. E. Mayer and P. E. Peterson. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Stecher, Brian M. and George W. Bohrnstedt. 2000. "Class Size Reduction in California: The 1998-99 Evaluation Findings." California Department of Education, Sacramento.
Varenne, Herve and Ray McDermott. 1999. Successful Failure: The School America Builds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

5/1 FINAL PAPERS DUE   First set of final presentations

5/8 Second set of final presentations, if necessary

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