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Download full textLang, Kevin; Kahn-Lang Spitzer, Ariella – Future of Children, 2020
In this article, economists Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer take up the expansive issue of discrimination, examining specifically how discrimination and bias shape people's outcomes. The authors focus primarily on discrimination by race, while acknowledging that discrimination exists along many other dimensions as well, including gender,…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias, Labor Market, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Direct linkAhmed, Sabrina – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, governments all around are producing new policy provisions to mitigate the learning gap. Based on the new policy provision, universities switched to online education because social distancing was necessary to stop community transmission of the virus (Crawford et al., 2020). This study aims to explore how…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Social Differences
Frisancho Robles, Veronica C.; Krishna, Kala – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically disadvantaged minorities. Although the underlying social objectives of these policies are rarely criticized, there is intense debate over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Higher Education, Social Class
Else-Quest, Nicole M.; Hyde, Janet Shibley; Linn, Marcia C. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
A gender gap in mathematics achievement persists in some nations but not in others. In light of the underrepresentation of women in careers in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering, increasing research attention is being devoted to understanding gender differences in mathematics achievement, attitudes, and affect. The gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Mathematics Achievement, Disproportionate Representation
Yaffe, Deborah – Educational Testing Service, 2011
Across the globe, education is essential to social mobility, bettering the lives of individuals and moving whole nations from poverty to affluence. Yet educational opportunity and the upward mobility it can bring are not equally available to everyone. In rich and poor nations alike, the disadvantaged--defined by gender and geography, race and…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Social Class, Global Education, Conferences (Gatherings)
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Murnane, Richard, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In "Whither Opportunity?" a distinguished team of economists,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Community Characteristics, Neighborhoods, Behavior Problems
