Parallel education and the reproduction of inequality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Recent research has unexpectedly revealed that the largest gaps in academic performance occur in more socioeconomically advantaged communities and school districts (Reardon, Kalogrides and Shores 2017). In this dissertation, I ask: How do students become "high-performing" students in elite (public) high schools? And, how do the strategies that students use to excel academically affect students across the class spectrum? To answer these questions, I draw on a case study of a high-performing, well-resourced high school that I refer to as Willow Creek. The data come from 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 72 in-depth interviews with high school students and key informants, including teachers, staff, administrators, and parents. Analysis of the data reveals the mechanisms that support the stratification system that operates within the school. I show that performance is tied to access to parallel education—which I define as private educational activities (such as tutoring and counseling) that families obtain from sources outside the school and that become institutionalized via the school environment. Parallel education is a mechanism that drives the divergence in academic outcomes by class and exacerbates within-school inequality in well-resourced, high-performing public schools.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Castro, Lorena |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
| Advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lorena Castro. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2017 by Lorena Castro
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