Stratification into Higher Education by Race and Class and the Role of High Schools
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Stratification into Higher Education by Race and Class and the Role of High Schools
Yazar:
Coca, Vanessa Marie, author.
ISBN:
9780438004641
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (234 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Richard Arum Committee members: Jennifer Jennings; James Kemple.
Özet:
Most Americans believe that access to and success in higher education is critical to their economic and social mobility. Indeed, the vast majority of young adults today enter college within eight years of finishing high school (Rosenbaum, Ahearn, Becker, & Rosenbaum, 2015). Yet, gaps in college degree attainment by race and class endure. As such, social scientists are interested in exploring how social origins and schooling experiences shape various forms of stratification in higher education.
This dissertation aims to build on a wide body of sociological and education research by examining various pre-college factors as key aspects of the process of stratification into higher education. In fact, this dissertation explores the role of pre-college factors as few studies can. Namely, I investigate the role of various pre-college factors using a massive, longitudinal administrative dataset from a large urban school district that has been linked to individual-level postsecondary information from a large, urban postsecondary system and the National Student Clearinghouse.
This dissertation is organized into three stand-alone papers. Each paper explores a different, yet related, aspect of students' pre-college experiences that likely contribute stratification in higher education. The first study uses responses from a district-wide survey to students, teachers, and parents to explore the role of high school conditions on postsecondary entry. Findings from this study indicate that growth in divergent perspectives on the college-going culture within high schools was associated with drop in the school's college enrollment rate over time. The second study builds on the literature on students' college destinations by investigating the 'academic undermatch' phenomenon. Results indicate predictors of undermatch differ by student's academic qualifications. Also, large differences in the colleges attended have important implications for students' postsecondary experiences and outcomes. My third study examines patterns of racial and economic segregation that extend from students' neighborhood and high schools to their postsecondary institutions. Results from this study indicate relatively high and consistent levels of racial and economic segregation across these three settings. Moreover, students who experienced persistent patterns of segregation had very low levels of educational attainment.
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School code: 0146
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