The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities

Gamoran, Adam

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“…In a large scale study using High School & Beyond survey data, Gamoran (1987) found that while social studies coursework maintains a small effect on achievement test scores, there was little variation in the quantity of coursework completed. His analyses, however, account for neither student performance in the social studies coursework under study, nor the type of social studies coursework taken.…”

Section: Schooling and Citizenship Educationmentioning

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Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and Socialization

Callahan¹,

Muller

Schiller

2008

Theory & Research in Social Education

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Immigrant adolescents are one of the fastest growing segments of our population, yet we know little about how schools prepare them for citizenship. Although prior research suggests that high school civics education, academic achievement, and a sense of connection increase political participation in early adulthood, we do not know if these processes apply to immigrant youth. Using longitudinal, nationally representative data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study (AHAA) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we employ multilevel models to investigate the effects of formal and informal school curricula on early adult voting and registration. We find that children of immigrant parents who take more high school social studies coursework have higher levels of reported voter registration and voting. In addition, attending a high school where students have a greater sense of connection or where parents have more education are important predictors of registration and voting, regardless of immigrant status. Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and SocializationThe American common school emerged in the mid-19th century as a means to prepare and educate an active citizenry for participation in a democratic society. With the rise of the urban center as an immigrant receiving ground, the role of schools in transforming immigrant students into civic participants grew in importance (Tyack, 1974). A historical function of U.S. public schools has been to prepare youth, and immigrant youth in particular, to participate in civic society, to participate in the democratic process in general, and to vote in particular (Cremin, 1951;Goodlad, 1984). According to Census 2000, one in five school-age children is an immigrant, or a child of immigrant parents 1 (Hernandez, © College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies She can be contacted at: rmcallah@uga.edu. 1 We use the term immigrant to refer to youth who are children of foreign-born parents (either or both parents born outside the United States), encompassing both first-and second generation adolescents. A critical factor in schools' role in civic education relates to parental familiarity with the civic system; both first and second generation youth have foreign-born parents new to the U.S. civic culture. Preliminary analyses found no significant differences in predicting our outcomes for first as opposed to second generation immigrant citizen young adults. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptTheory Res Soc Educ. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 July 25. ; this dramatic increase in the immigrant student population brings the role of schools in preparing students for the democratic process to the forefront. U.S. schools often serve as a social and educational nexus in the community where immigrant students, and even their parents, can come for socialization into the American mainstream (Olsen, 2000). The struggle to balance immigrant students' unique ...

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Section: Schooling and Citizenship Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and Socialization

Callahan¹,

Muller

Schiller

2008

Theory & Research in Social Education

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“…Further authors (e.g., Boudon, 1974) identify the main cause in the insufficient economic resources of lower education families. Another stream of theories (e.g., Gamoran, 1987;Oakes, 2005) approach the issue from a completely different perspective and try to demonstrate that inequality reproduction is built in the education system's organization.…”

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Education and the Reproduction of Inequalities

Veselý¹

2012

Sociological Landscape - Theories, Realities and Trends

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“…Scheduling constraints can amplify existing tendencies for clustering as schools organize course offerings in terms of tracks and cohorts (Gamoran, 1987;Hallinan and Sorensen, 1985;Nystrand and Gamoran, 1991;Oakes, 1985;Oakes and Guiton, 1995;Sorensen, 1987). That is, because courses offered simultaneously are mutually exclusive, some courses cannot be taken together.…”

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Identifying positions from affiliation networks: Preserving the duality of people and events

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Frank's [Frank, K.A., 1995. Identifying cohesive subgroups. Social Networks 17, 27-56] clustering technique for one-mode social network data is adapted to identify positions in affiliation networks by drawing on recent extensions of p * models to two-mode data. The algorithm is applied to the classic Deep South data on southern women and the social events in which they participated with results comparable to other algorithms. Monte Carlo simulations are used to generate sampling distributions to test for the presence of clustering in new data sets and to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. The algorithm and simulation results are then applied to high school students' transcripts from one school from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) extension of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

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The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities

Cited by 389 publications

References 43 publications

Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and Socialization

Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and Socialization

Education and the Reproduction of Inequalities

Identifying positions from affiliation networks: Preserving the duality of people and events

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