| Description |
xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Social institutions and social change |
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Social institutions and social change.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Skills, Habits, Styles, and School Success -- 3. Family Linguistic Culture and the Child's Cognitive-Skill Development / George Farkas and Kurt Beron -- 4. Cognitive Skill and Earnings Determination / George Farkas, Paula England, Keven Vicknair and Barbara Kilbourne -- 5. The Dallas Research Setting, Data, Methods -- 6. Basic Skills -- 7. Habits and Styles -- 8. Coursework Mastery -- 9. Course Grades -- 10. Intervening to Affect the Skills, Habits, and Styles of At-Risk Students -- 11. Reading One-One / George Farkas and Keven Vicknair -- 12. Bureaucratic Politics and Instructional Service Delivery: The Central Bureaucracy Strikes Back -- Appendix: Methodology for Constructing Table 10.2 |
| Summary |
This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion that experiences at home and school create a feedback loop by which the "cultural capital" of the students (their toolkit of skills, habits, and styles with which they construct strategies of action) evolves over time and largely determines differential success in mastering the teacher-assigned coursework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index |
| Subject |
Academic achievement -- United States.
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Educational anthropology -- United States.
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Human capital -- United States.
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Minorities -- Education -- Reading -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.
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Minorities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Minorities -- Education -- Reading -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.
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Minorities -- Education -- United States -- Social acpects
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Poor -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Reading comprehension -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.
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Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.
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Remedial teaching -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| LC no. |
96006394 |
| ISBN |
0202305236 (alk. paper) |
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0202305244 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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