244 - Regular Session. Inequality and Privilege in Education

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

The papers in this session offer varied looks at patterns of educational privilege and inequality. Two address inequalities in higher education, but from very different perspectives. One analyzes the effects of state policies allowing in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. The second considers a more privileged population, providing a new look at the payoffs to graduating from selective colleges. A third paper takes an ethnographic view of the realities of how Hartford, Connecticut’s school choice program works for minority and poor parents. The final paper offers a broad, cross-national assessment of math achievement, asking, in particular, what types of instructional policies and funding levels produce high average math achievement and result in reduced SES gaps in math learning.

Sub Unit

• Education Policy

Session Organizer

• Julia Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center

Presider

• Julia Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center

Individual Presentations

• Searching for the Golden Model of Education: Cross-national Analysis of Math Achievement - Katerina Bodovski, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Soo-yong Byun, The Pennsylvania State University; Volha Chykina, The Pennsylvania State University; Hee Jin Chung, Pennsylvania State University

• The Earnings Payoff from Attending a Selective College - Dirk Witteveen, City University of New York, The Graduate Center; Paul A. Attewell, CUNY, Graduate Center

• The Impact of State DREAM Acts for Undocumented Students on the Postsecondary Pathway - Brian Holzman, Rice University

• Untouchable Carrots: Marketing School Choice and Realities in Hartford's Inter-district Magnet Program - Mira Catherine Debs, Yale University