Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

Parental educational involvement in primary and secondary school is strongly linked to
students' academic success; however; less is known about the long-term effects of parental …

We did not realize it at the time, but we were observing a new cohort of students being swept
up onto the party pathway that defines a swath of undergraduate social life at this university …

Income inequality in educational attainment is a long-standing concern, and disparities in
college completion have grown over time. Need-based financial aid is commonly used to …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Over six decades since the Supreme Court ruled that all American children have the right to
a high quality education, the academic achievement gap remains an important social …

Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in
educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution …

The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by
incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its …

Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most
ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults …