Determined to succeed?
Subtitle: performance versus choice in educational attainment
By: edited by Michelle Jackson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780804783026
Subjects: Academic achievement; Cross-cultural studies; Educational equalization; Educational attainment
Description: This text offers a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how is inequality of educational opportunity generated? : the case for primary and secondary effects / Michelle Jackson; title: Primary and secondary effects : some methodological issues / Christiana Kartsonaki, Michelle Jackson and David R. Cox; title: Inequality in transitions to secondary school and tertiary education in Germany / Martin Neugebauer, David Reimer, Steffen Schindler and Volker Stocké; title: How social background affects educational attainment over time in the Netherlands / Charlotte Büchner and Rolf van der Velden; title: Academic achievement, tracking decisions and their relative contribution to educational inequalities : change over four decades in France / Mathieu Ichou and Louis-André Vallet; title: Social origin inequalities in educational careers in Italy : performance or decision effects? / Dalit Contini and Andrea Scagni; title: Ever declining inequalities? : transitions to upper secondary and tertiary education in Sweden, for the 1972-1990 birth cohorts / Frida Rudolphi; title: Dentist, driver, or dropout? : family background and secondary education choices in Denmark / Anders Holm and Mads Meier Jaeger; title: Social background and educational transitions in England / Michelle Jackson; title: Class origins, high school graduation, and college entry in the United States / Stephen L. Morgan, Michael W. Spiller and Jennifer J. Todd; title: Why does inequality of educational opportunity vary across countries? : primary and secondary effects in comparative context / Michelle Jackson and Jan O. Jonsson.