Section on Sociology of Education / Open Topic on Sociology of Education (5 sessions)

Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University

Elizabeth Martinez, Indiana University

Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents' Risk of Being Overweight - Jennifer March Augustine, University of South Carolina; Julie Skalamera Olson, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin

Essential Supports or Expendable Supports: The Causal Effects of High School Organizational Climate on Student Outcomes - Joshua Klugman, Temple University

Explaining the Black-White Gap in Four-year College Entry and Departure - Christina Ciocca, Columbia University; Thomas A. DiPrete, Columbia University

Stephen L. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University