Uneven progress: Recent trends in academic performance among US school districts

KT Matheny, ME Thompson… - American …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We use data from the Stanford Education Data Archive to describe district-level trends in
average academic achievement between 2009 and 2019. Although on average school …

Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020

JJB Mijs, EL Roe - Sociology Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As income inequality in the United States has reached an all‐time high, commentators from
across the political spectrum warn about the social implications of these economic changes …

Unequal opportunity: School and neighborhood segregation in the USA

A Owens - Race and Social Problems, 2020 - Springer
School and neighborhood segregation are intertwined in complex ways. Schools reflect
segregated neighborhoods, and school considerations reinforce neighborhood segregation …

Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?

MG Sciffer, LB Perry, A McConney - Comparative Perspectives on …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
International research has consistently found that the socioeconomic segregation of schools
may worsen inequalities in schooling outcomes through the socioeconomic compositional …

Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage

DS Connor, L Hunter, J Jang, JH Uhl - Research in Social Stratification and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Children born into poverty in rural America achieve higher average income levels as adults
than their urban peers. As economic opportunity tends to be more abundant in cities, this" …

Growing up as rents rise: How housing affordability impacts children

JJ Holme - Review of Educational Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past several decades, housing costs have risen sharply, and as a result, an
increasing number of families have become “housing cost burdened,” paying more than one …

The unequal availability of rental housing information across neighborhoods

M Besbris, A Schachter, J Kuk - Demography, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
As more urban residents find their housing through online search tools, recent research has
theorized the potential for online information to transform and equalize the housing search …

Legacy and shockwaves: A spatial analysis of strengthening resilience of the power grid in Connecticut

A Gallaher, M Graziano, M Fiaschetti - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Grid resilience and reliability are pivotal in the transition to low and zero carbon energy
systems. Tree-trimming operations (TTOs) have become a pivotal tool for increasing the …

Predatory inclusion in the market for rental housing: A multicity empirical test

M Besbris, J Kuk, A Owens, A Schachter - Socius, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a unique data set of millions of advertisements for rental housing and data on the
geographic distribution of housing voucher holders, we examine the limits of housing market …

Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States

J Workman - Social Science Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Social scientists have found income inequality is associated with an array of health and
social problems, however the implications of income inequality for education are the subject …