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Ben Le; Kristin E. Black; Coleen Carlson; Jeremy Miciak; Lindsay Romano; David Francis; Michael J. Kieffer – Educational Researcher, 2024
This brief analyzes 4-year graduation rates among students ever classified as English learners (ever-ELs) and those never classified as English learners (never-ELs) at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, and neighborhood income. We follow two cohorts of New York City students who entered ninth grade in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 (N =…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Graduation Rate, English Language Learners, Race
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Ribeiro, Luísa A.; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Naerde, Ane; Wang, Mari Vaage; Brandlistuen, Ragnhild Eek; Passaretta, Giampiero – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Socioeconomic disparities in early language are widespread and have long-lasting effects. The aim of this study is to investigate when social gaps in language problems arise and how they change across the first years of schooling. We address this question in two large longitudinal Norwegian datasets: the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
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Park, Sueuk; Wells, Ryan; Bills, David – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
The mean levels of educational expectations of American high school students have increased over the past generation; individual educational expectations change as students mature. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study and the Education Longitudinal Study, we examined simultaneously the changes in individuals' expectations from 10th to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Expectation, Cohort Analysis, Student Attitudes
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Klausen, Trond Beldo – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper investigates whether social origin has an impact on graduation age among university students. A large number of social background factors are applied on a large data set of 4 successive cohorts of Danish university graduates born 1960-1975. These are cohorts for whom university attendance increased steeply. Contrary to recent findings…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Differences, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Edim, M. E.; Odok, E. A. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The main thrust of this study was to investigate sports participation and social personality variable of students in secondary schools in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of this study, one hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. Literature review was carried out according to the variable of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Participation, Sport Psychology
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Ru-Jer, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
In recent years, the rapid growth of higher education in Taiwan has led to an essential shift from education for the elite to the massification of higher education. Although this massification is making higher education more accessible, one of the main concerns is whether opportunities for higher education are the same among all social classes in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Iannelli, Cristina – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
This paper examines trends in social class inequalities in young people's educational attainment and HE [Higher Education] entry between the mid-1980s and the end of the 1990s in England and Scotland. Using time-series data derived from the Scottish School Leavers Surveys and the England (and Wales) Youth Cohort Study, changes in both absolute and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Attainment, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
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Alon, Sigal – American Sociological Review, 2009
This study develops a comprehensive theoretical framework regarding the evolution of the class divide in postsecondary education. I conceptualize three prototypes of class inequality--effectively maintained, declining, and expanding--and associate their emergence with the level of competition in college admissions. I also unearth the twin…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, College Admission, Scores
Koplik, Elissa K.; DeVito, Anthony J. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1986
College freshmen of both sexes in the classes of 1976 and 1986 were compared on the basis of individual items (problems) reported on a checklist. Results focus on class and sex differences in personal development, living conditions, social activities, social, personal, and interpersonal relations, home and family, morals, adjustment to college,…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education