Variations in students'
performance across different school sectors--specifically, public,
private religious, and private nonreligious schools--has long been an
important topic in the sociology of education. In recent years, debate
over the merits of each sector has increased between advocates and
critics of school choice, as exemplified by current struggles over
educational vouchers and their ramifications for public policy and
politics.
What has been lacking in this debate, however, has been a theoretically
grounded empirical analysis of the factors that affect student success
across sectors.
School Sector and
Student Outcomes offers such an assessment. By presenting a set
of methodologically rigorous empirical studies, the volume provides a
viable basis for comparisons across sectors on such issues as school
organization, governance, curriculum, and pedagogy in the U.S.
elementary and secondary schools. Carefully reasoned conceptual
analyses identify the source of sector differences, trace the evolution
of the dual school system in the U.S., and describe the mechanisms that
link school sector to school processes. The volume amply documents how
sector differences operate and what the consequences are for student
learning and behavior.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Public and Private
Education: Conceptualizing the Distinction
Charles E. Bidwell and Robert Dreeben
Chapter 2: Innovation in
Educational Markets: An Organizational Analysis of Third
Sector Schools in Toronto Scott Davies and Linda Quirke
Chapter 3:
Public and Private School
Differences: The Relationship of Adolescent Religious Involvement to
Psychological Well-Being and Altruistic Behavior
Barbara Schneider, Lisa Hoogstra, Fengbin Chang, and Holly Rice
Sexton
Chapter 4: Religious Participation as Cultural Capital
Development: Sector Differences in Chicago’s Jewish Schools
Adam
Gamoran and Matthew Boxer
Chapter 5: The Practice of
Ability
Grouping: Sector Differences in Implementation
Maureen T.
Hallinan and Brandy J. Ellison
Chapter
6: Student Learning: Sector Differences in Achievement Gains Across School
Years and During the Summer
William
Carbonaro
Chapter 7: Sector
Differences in Opportunities for Parental Involvement in the School
Context
Gail M. Mulligan
Chapter 8: Children's Cultural Capital and
Teachers’ Assessments of Effort and
Ability: The Influence of School Sector
Susan
A. Dumais
SBN10: 0-268-03101-0/
ISBN13:978-0-268-03101-5
paperback/240 pgs./University of Notre Dame Press/
$35.00
School
Sector and Student Outcomes
