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(Re)Producing or Disrupting Inequality: Exploring the Utility of Opportunity Hoarding in Educational Research

Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Event Centre, 1st Floor, St. Gallen 1

Session Type: Symposium

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Over the last decade, a growing number of educational studies have engaged with or drawn from Tilly’s (1998) concept of opportunity hoarding to explain inequality. Scholars have used the concept to analyze how advantaged parents secure and/or maintain scarce educational resources that favor their children at the expense of racially marginalized students. In this symposium, the authors’ examine the ways in which policies and practices related to enrollment, curriculum/resources, and funding mechanisms impact opportunity hoarding behaviors. We argue that the concept of opportunity hoarding has great potential for not only explaining inequality but also helping to ameliorate it, and therefore it is important to understand how scholars might extend its use and inform equity-oriented educational policy and practice.

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