Summer 2003

Newly-Elected SOE Section Officers

We have a new slate of officers for our section. Please share with me our congratulations to:

James Rosenbaum, Chair-Elect

George Farkas, Secretary-Treasurer

Richard Arum and Claudia Buchmann, Council members

A special thanks to our members who were willing to be nominated and stand for election.

As Barbara noted in her e-mail announcement, "What keeps a section healthy is the active participation of its members. Please vote, respond to emails, and join us at the ASA meetings this summer!"

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Section on Sociology of Education Sessions at the Annual Meeting

ASA-SOE Planning Matrix (Locations listed in the Final Program)

	Saturday 8/16	Sunday 8/17	Monday 8/18	Tuesday 8/19
8:30 AM		Stratification in the Early Years: ECLS	Race and Education	Stratification and Education
10:30 AM			Refereed Round Tables	Entering and Exiting Higher Education
12:30 PM
2:30 PM		Contexts of Educational Achievement	Schools as Organizations
4:30 PM	Family Background & Academic		SOE Section Business Meeting
6:30 PM
7:30 PM		SOE Reception & Dinner

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Discussant: George Farkas, Pennsylvania State University
Presider: Edward W. Morris, University of Texas at Austin

Presenters:
"Effects of Social Capital on Minority and Immigrant Students' School Achievement." Lindsay Taggart, University of Pennsylvania; Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania

"Immigrant Children's School Performance." Suet-Ling Pong, Pennsylvania State University; Erica Gardner, Pennsylvania State University

"A Cross-National Analysis of the Relationship between Family Strengths and Educational Achievement." Lina Guzman, Child Trends; Gillian Hampden-Thompson; Laura Lippman

"Racial and Ethnic Educational Inequality in Global Perspective." Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University; Richard Arum, New York University; Kathryn Seufert, New York University

II Stratification in the Early Years: Results from ECLS
Sunday, 8/17/2003 from 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Description: Each of the papers in this session uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine key aspects of early learning patterns such as class size, ability grouping, and the test gap associated with socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity.

Discussant: Douglas B. Downey, Ohio State University
Presider: Lorena Lopez-Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin

Presenters:
"Explaining Divergence in Rates of Learning and Forgetting among First-Graders." Annie Georges, Columbia University

"Ability Grouping and Educational Stratification in the Early School Years." Laura Tach, Pennsylvania State University; George Farkas, Pennsylvania State University

"Effect of Class Size and Instruction on Kindergarten Achievement." Carolina Milesi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade." Sean F. Reardon, Pennsylvania State University

III Contexts of Educational Achievement
Sunday, 8/17/2003, from 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Description: This session chronicles various contextual influences on the educational trajectory of youth. Researchers investigate educational contexts such as segregation, school reform, and at-risk behaviors as they pertain to educational outcomes.

Discussant: Aaron Pallas, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Presider: Kelly Goran Fulton, University of Texas at Austin

Presenters:
"Educational Achievement Heritability and Individual-Level Environmental Influences." Guang Guo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Bejamin Alexandar Fletcher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Adolescent At-Risk Behaviors: A Multi-Level Analysis of Family, Neighborhood and School Factors Affecting Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes." Andrew Beveridge, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY; Sophia Catsambis, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY and National Center for Educational Statistics

"The Continuing Consequences of Segregation: Family Stress and College Academic Performance." Camille Zubrinsky Charles, University of Pennsylvania; Gniesha Dinwiddie, University of Pennsylvania, Douglas Massey, University of Pennsylvania

"Segregation and the SAT." Roslyn A. Mickelson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

"Florida's A+ Plan: Education Reform Policies and Student Outcomes." Reginald Lee, University of South Florida; Kathryn Borman, University of South Florida

IV Race and Education
Monday, 8/18/2003, from 8:30 AM-10:10 AM

Discussant: Lisa Stulberg, New York University
Presider: Richard Arum, New York University

Presenters:
"Breeding Animosity, The Significance of School Placement Patterns in the Burden of Acting White." Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Educational Expectations and Aspirations among Latino Adolescents." Stephanie Bohon, University of Georgia; Monica Johnson, Washington State University; Bridget Gorman, Rice University

"Race, Redistribution and Americans' Educational Policy Preferences." Pamela Walters, Joshua Klugman, Jenny Stuber and Michael Rosenbaum, Indiana University

"In Search of Brown: The Unfulfilled Promise of School Desegregation in Six Racially Mixed Schools." Amy Stuart Wells, Awo Atando, Teachers College; Amina Humphry and Anita Revilla, University of California, Los Angeles.

V Schools as Organizations and Work Settings
Monday, 8/18/2003, from 2:30 PM-4:10 PM

Discussant: Francisco Ramirez, Stanford University
Presider: David Frank, University of California, Irvine

Presenters:
"School Choice, Whose Choice?" Linda Renzuli and Lorraine Evans, University of Georgia

"Faculty Working Time and Gender Inequality?" Jerry Jacobs and Sarah Winslow, University of Pennsylvania

"The Effects of Magnet Schools on Neighborhood High Schools." Ruth Neild, University of Pennsylvania

"Four Affirmative Actions." Mitchell Stevens, Hamilton College

VI Stratification and Education
Tuesday, 8/19/2003, 8:30 AM-10:10 AM
Presider: Joyce Epstein, John Hopkins University

Presenters:
"Annual State-level High School Dropout and GED Completion Rates." John Warren, University of Minnesota

"Educational Expansion and Inequality in Access to Higher Education in Japan." Hirsohi Ishida, University of Tokyo

"Stratifying Variations of College in Russia: Differences over Time, by Gender, in Returns." Ted Gerber, University of Arizona

"Who Gets High Quality Teaching? An Analysis of within and between Country Variance in TIMMS-R." Thomas Smith, Laura Desimone, Vanderbilt University; David Baker and Koji Ueno, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant: Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin

VII Entering and Exiting Higher Education
Tuesday, 8/19/2003, from 10:30 AM-12:10 PM.

Description: This session includes research on the stratification processes that influence access to and entrance into higher education. In addition, presenters will discuss their research on the influence of academic and social indicators on persistence and degree attainment.

Discussant: David Karen, Bryn Mawr College
Presider: Amy G. Langenkamp, University of Texas at Austin

Presenters:
"Wasted Talent: Why Some High-Achieving Students Don't Apply to College." Ruth N.
Lopez Turley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Measuring Equity in Advanced High School Science: Differences in School Offerings and Student Choices." Catherine Riegle-Crumb, University of Texas at Austin

"Understanding the 'Swirling' Undergraduate Attendance Pattern: The Role of Student Background Characteristics and College Behaviors." Sara Y. Rab, University of Pennsylvania.

"The Ties that Bind: How Connections Made During the College Transition Affect College Outcomes." Mary J. Fischer, University of Pennsylvania

"Propensity Score Matching to Estimate the Effects of Elite College Attendance on Career Outcomes." Jennie Elizabeth Brand, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Charles Halaby, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Refereed Round Tables
Monday, 8/18/2003, from 10:30 AM-12:10 PM

1. Tracking and Educational Attainment
Table Presider: Karl Alexander, Johns Hopkins karl@jhu.edu

An Early Start: Effects of Ability Grouping on Reading Achievement. Dennis Condron, Ohio State University

Effects of School Types on Educational Attainment: Great Britain and the U.S. Compared. Mary Powell, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Cross-Time (1956-1975) Study of Meritocratic Track Placement Before and After the 'Unremarked Revolution'. James Jones, Mississippi State

2. Family Background and Educational Attainment
Table Presider: Aaron Pallas, Teachers College pallas@exchange.tc.columbia.edu

Financial Health and Positive Family Relations Prepare Children for School. Deborah Zimmerman, Oakland University
The Effect of Preschool Exposure on Kindergarten Learning. Shelly Brown, University of North Carolina

Race, Income and Parental Education: Why Family Background Determines School Choice Decisions. Stephanie Arnett, University of Notre Dame

Leveling the Home Advantage: Educational Equity and Parental Involvement in School. Thurston Domina, CUNY Graduate Center

3. Cultural Capital and Educational Achievement
Table Presider: Annette Lareau, Temple University pallas@exchange.tc.columbia.edu

How the Concept of Cultural Capital was Imported into American Sociology of Education. David Swartz, Boston University

Race, Cultural Capital, and Educational Attainment: How Do Asian-Americans Differ? Wendy Cadge, Princeton University; David Karen, Bryn Mawr College; Thomas
Vartanian, Bryn Mawr College

Student Goals, Mistakes and Plans in Differing Institutional Settings: A Study of Two Year Colleges. Ann Pearson, Northwestern University

4. School Reform and Student Performance
Table Presider: Tom Hoffer, NORC HOFFER-TOM@norc.net

A New Model for Comprehensive School Reform: Results of the Partnership Schools-CSR Pilot Study. Joyce Epstein, Johns Hopkins University

Can District Finance Policy Enhance School Performance? Edward Reeves, Morehead State University

Segregation, Diversity, and Accountability in Florida Schools. Tamela Eitle, University of Miami

Social Measurement and Social Policy: Graduation Rates under the High Stakes of NCLB. Christopher Swanson, The Urban Institute

5. Access and Choice in Schooling: International Perspectives
Table Presider: Claudia Buchmann, Duke University <cbuch@soc.duke.edu>

Making Modern Tibetans: The Success or Failure of State Schooling in Rural Tibet. Gerard Postiglione, University of Hong Kong

Mixed Family Response to State Fragility and Organizational Pluralism: Self Help in Malawi and Kenya. Mark Schafer, Louisiana State University
Sociology of Girls' Education: Theory's Contribution to International Educational Research. Mary Ann Maslak, St. John's University

6. Ethnicity and Student Achievement: The Teacher's Role
Table Presider: Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <kdtyson@email.unc.edu>

The Teacher-Student Relationship: Interpersonal Connections between West Indian Students and their West Indian, African American, and White Teachers. Natasha Warikoo, Harvard University

Untangling the Web: Cultural Models and the Affects of Teachers' Beliefs on Student Success. Tanya Kravatz, University of California San Diego

Transforming 'poor' behavior: Social class and caring in a predominantly African American elementary school. Kelly Goran Fulton, University of Texas at Austin

7. Student Attitudes Toward Achievement Among Different Ethnicities
Table Presider: Doug Downey, Ohio State University <downey.32@sociology.osu.edu>

Revisiting the Attitude/Achievement Paradox Among Blacks. James Ainsworth-Darnell, Georgia State University

Individual Effort and Accountability in American Indian Adolescents' Accounts of
School Success and Failure. Marsha Lichtenstein, University of Mexico

Habits of the Mind: In Search of the Academic Ethic Among College Students. William Smith & Nathan Pino, Georgia Southern University

8. Education and the Labor Market
Table Presider: Steven Plank, Johns Hopkins University splank@jhu.edu

Modeling the Selection Process in Educational Attainment. Mark McKerrow, Cornell University

Long-Term Correlates of Dropping Out: Evidence from NELS. Elizabeth Stearns, Center for Child and Family Policy; Stephanie Moller, University of North Carolina

Explaining Variable Returns to Cognitive Skill across Occupations. William Carbonaro, University of Notre Dame

Business Influence on K-12 Education: Historical Context of the Standards-Based Reform Movement. Gordon Chang, University of California, Los Angeles

9. School Safety and Classroom Authority
Table Presider: Richard Arum, New York University <richard.arum@nyu.edu>
Classroom Authority as Strategies of Action: How Teachers Use Culture. Judith Pace, University of San Francisco

Contextual Effects on Students' Safety: Modeling Differential Effects of Neighborhood and School Social Organization. David Kirk & Thomas Gannon-Rowley, University of Chicago

Zero Tolerance for Youth: Fear, Loathing and the Scary School Myth. Karen Sternheimer, University of Southern California

10. Educational Attainment Among Immigrants
Table Presider: Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University <hao@jhu.edu>

School Context and Generational Differences in Academic Achievement. Lorena Lopez & Rob Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin; Chandra Muller, University of Texas

Ethnic segregation and educational outcomes in Swedish comprehensive schools: A multilevel analysis. Jan Jonsson, Stockholm University

Influences of Community Context on the Educational Attainment of Latino and Asian Students in Native and Immigrant Households. Gabriella Gonzalez, RAND Corporation

11. School Effect on Educational Achievement
Table Presider: Dan McFarland, Stanford University <dmcfarla@stanford.edu>

School Effects and Allocation Processes: The Effects of High Schools on College Destinations. Joshua Klugman, Indiana University

Using Instrumentation and Data Developed for Large National Surveys (ECLS-K)in Small Scale Studies. Cornelius Riordan, Providence College; Don Hunt & Irene Flores,
State University of New York Albany

School mobility: The impact of disruption on academic development. Amy Langenkamp, University of Texas at Austin

Academic Failure in Secondary School: The Inter-Related Role of Physical Health Problems and Educational Context. Belinda Needham & Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin; Chandra Muller, University of Texas

12. Vocational Training and School-to-Work Programs
Table Presider: Regina Werum, Emory University <rwerum@emory.edu>

Learning to Work: A Study of Secondary Vocational Education. Venessa Keesler, Harvard University

Head Start & School-to-Work Program Participation. Richard Caputo, Yeshiva University

Learned Dichotomies and the Negotiation of Class. Caroline Childress, University of Washington

13. Correlates for Persistence and Achievement in Higher Education
Table Presider: Amy Binder, University of Southern California <abinder@usc.edu>

Adolescent Nonmarital Childbearing and Educational Attainment: The Role of Educational Expectations. Ann Beutel, University of Oklahoma

Leaving Community College: Do Existing Models of College Dropout Apply to Community College Students? Regina Deil-Amen, Penn State University

Lessons from the Cold War: Military Service and College Graduation. Alair MacLean, University of Wisconsin Madison

Test-Taking Time as a Correlate of Student Performance in Introduction to Sociology. Freddie Obligacion, Metropolitan College of New York

14. Ethnicity and Selectivity in Higher Education
Table Presider: Hiroshi Ishida, University of Tokyo <ishida@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

How Race Matters: The Integration of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities on a Predominantly White College Campus. Katherine McClelland, Franklin and Marshall College

Differing Opinions of Affirmative Action From Those Who Experienced It. Wendy Chi, University of Michigan

A College Preparatory Program for Native American Students: SDSU-Flandreau Indian School Success Academy. MaryJo Lee, South Dakota State University

Doors Wide... Shut: Gatekeeping in Elite College Admissions. Leslie Killgore, Brown University

15. Higher Education as Organizations and Work Settings
Table Presider: Mitchell Stevens, Hamilton College <mstevens@hamilton.edu>

Becoming a Scholar: A study of Professional Identity Development in Undergraduate Students Pursuing Academic Careers. Christine Sheikh, University of Arizona

Is it Safe to Come Out Yet? Queer Educators, Identity Politics, and Knowledge Construction. Derek Greenfield, Highline Community College

Institutional Constraint on Authentic Scholarly Learning: Contributions from Bourdieu. Anna Neumann & Gregory Anderson, Teachers College, Columbia University

The Legitimation Process: The Accreditation of the University of Phoenix by the North Central Association. Martin Hughes, University of Arizona

16. The Role of Education
Table Presider: Pamela Perry, University of California Santa Cruz <pperry@cats.ucsc.edu>

Dreaming of the Third Reconstruction: Visions, Praxis and the Role of Academia. Melanie Bush, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Remaking the University: Changes in Teaching and Research Emphases over the 20th Century. David Frank, University of California Irvine; Jay Gabler, Harvard University

Deconstructing the Purpose of Education in American Democratic Society. Jessica Kenty, Northeastern University

Prayer, Fear and Focus on Patriotism/Diversity: Three Elementary Schools' Responses to September 11, 2001. Anne-Lise Halvorsen, University of Michigan

17. Teaching and Working in Academia
Table Presider: Floyd Hammack, New York University <fmh1@nyu.edu>

Research Productivity and Student Evaluation of Instruction in the Social Sciences. Steve Stack, Wayne State University

What Does It Take To Be Successful? Joseph Hermanowicz, University of Georgia
Diversity Teaching: Who Bears the Burden? Katherine Acosta & Helen Moore, University of Nebraska; Crystal Edwards, Connie Frey & Gary Perry, University of Nebraska Lincoln

18. Gender and Employment
Table Presider: Julia Wrigley, CUNY <jwrigley@gc.cuny.edu>

Women's Shifting Demographics and Representation:the relationship between literacy, birth rates and political power. Jodi Cohen, Northeastern University

Changing Organizational Structures in the Feminization of Schoolteaching. Jo Anne Preston, Brandeis University

Gendered Transitions into Work: The Deferential Effects of School Assisted Job Placement. Sandra Way, University of Arizona
Men in Elementary School: Teaching in a Feminized Profession. Kristin Gordon, Emory University

19. Family Background and Educational Attainment II
Table Presider: Brian Powell, Indiana University <powell@indiana.edu>

International Comparison of the Effects of Parents' Education on Students' Achievement: The Influence of National Selective Admission: Evidence from TIMSS. Kazuaki Uekawa, University of Chicago

Increasing Meritocracy? Changes in the Educational Attainment Process Over 35 years. Manyee Wong & James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University

Familialism, National Development, and Academic Performance: A 31-Country Examination of the Academic Performance of 15-Year-Olds. Jun Xu, Indiana University

SOE Section Business Meeting

Monday, August 17, 4:30-6:10pm

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RECEPTION & DINNER

WHERE: Agnes & Muriel's -1514 Monroe Drive Atlanta, Georgia (TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PROVIDED)
WHEN: Sunday night, 8/17. Reception begins at 7:30
Dinner Begins at 8:45
(LATE COMERS AND EARLIER LEAVERS WELCOME)
COST: Reception is free and includes: Awards, hors d'oeuvres and drinks

Dinner will cost $35 a person and will include:

Appetizers: Warm Artichoke Dip Garlic Potato Chips with onion Dip Fried Green Tomatoes Salad: Martini Salad Dinner Platters: Buttermilk Fried Chicken Coca-Cola BBQ Baby Back Ribs Louisiana Shrimp over Grits Grilled Salmon with Tomato Basil

Sautéed Garden Tomato Pasta Mashed Potatoes Macaroni and Cheese Lemon Sesame Collards Green Bean Casserole Sweet Potato Fries Desserts: Peach Raspberry Cobbler Southern Banana Pudding Chocolate Cream Pie

Please make checks payable to Agnes and Muriel's and send immediately to Jason Labate, 1155 East 60th Street, Room 352, Chicago, IL 60637; phone 773.256.6352.

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Announcing a New "Critical Perspectives" Section for Sociology of Education

Sociology of Education is inaugurating a new recurrent feature section, Critical Perspectives, which will appear twice in each volume year. This new initiative represents a continuation of the journal's occasional Exchange section (e.g., the Hallinan - Oakes exchange on educational tracking). However, instead of presenting point/counterpoint debates, each Perspectives section will feature commentaries by two or three scholars who have distinctive vantage points on a pressing issue in contemporary education. Scholars will be invited to submit short commentaries (about 1,500 words) outlining a perspective on an important, often controversial, issue in education. The purposes are to open dialogs, generate debate and critical reflection, and spark new research. The section will address issues of long-standing interest among sociologists of education, as well as new emerging concerns. The Perspectives section will be developed primarily under the direction of deputy editors Linda Grant and Suet-ling Pong, with the assistance of a specially appointed subcommittee of the Editorial Board that will assist with selection of contributors and the editing of commentaries.

The first two Perspectives sections will focus on gender equality/inequality in schooling and the schooling of immigrant children. Our goal is to publish the first of these sections (gender) in the 2003 October Issue. Suggestions for future topics are welcome. Please forward ideas to Linda Grant, Department of Sociology, Baldwin Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30602-1611; fax (706) 542-4320; email: lgrant@uga.edu, or Suet-ling Pong, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 310D Rackley Building, University Park, Pa. 16082; fax (814) 865-1480; email: pong@pop.psu.edu.

Call for Papers

Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Class, and Youth Development - A Call for Papers

Teachers College Record announces a call for papers for a special issue on Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Class, and Youth Development edited by Jean Anyon, Ratna Ghosh, and Roslyn Arlin Mickelson. This issue will feature papers reporting on original research regarding the development of youth, particularly in urban contexts.

As urban youth develop, they create meaning, identity, and a sense of themselves in the world by utilizing a variety of sources, including, perhaps most centrally, existing social constructions of ethnicity, race, gender, and social class. By what methods do youth create these meanings? How do they attain a sense of the future and its opportunities or hazards that leads them to appropriate elements of the environment in ways that are either positive or self-destructive? How do they define these and other options? What strategies do they employ to deal with poverty, racial, gender, or other discrimination and the disdain of dominant groups in society? What qualities of their communities and neighborhoods do they utilize as they grow? How do they negotiate the often rough terrains of school, the streets, or incarceration? Finally, how do urban youth develop a critical account of their societies, and how do they, or can they, move from cynicism or alienation to an informed resistance to oppression?

We are interested in all of these and other questions about the development of urban youth. Manuscripts that are submitted should engage these or other important issues. The scholarship must employ more than one of the following: original empirical research (qualitative and/or quantitative), sophisticated theorizing, political economy, comparative study, or historical analysis.

Manuscripts should be submitted using the TCR online submission system. Please indicate that your paper is for the special issue on youth development. Review of manuscripts will begin immediately and continue until May 1, 2004.

This call is also online at www.tcrecord.org so if you are short of space you can just include a brief note and the url.

Now Available

Now available: The second edition of Equality and Achievement: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education, by Cornelius Riordan.
2004 Paperback, Pearson Prentice Hall; Available June 2003; ISBN 0-13-048177-7

The 2E provides in depth coverage of thirty entirely new studies and over 200 new citations to the already existing base of studies from the first edition. The book provides extensive coverage on such topics as school and class size, tracking, family structure, the black/white test score gap, reform and restructuring, oppositional youth cultures, parental involvement, summer learning, school finance, accountability, and teacher quality. Each chapter ends with a summary of key studies, key concepts, and review questions.

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· Please urge your colleagues to join the Sociology of Education Section.
· Membership dues are $12.00 regular member; $7.00 student; and $10.00 low-income.
· Note this is in addition to regular ASA membership dues.
· Click: www.asanet.org/forms/mem.html

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Chair: Barbara Schneider, schneidr@norcmail.uchicago.edu
Chair-elect: Kevin Dougherty, kdougher@manhattan.edu
Treasurer/Secretary: Helen M. Marks, marks.50@osu.edu
Past Chair: Karl Alexander, Johns Hopkins University, kla2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

Council:
	Karen Bradley* [2004], karen.bradley@wwu.edu Steven G. Brint [2003], brint@mail.ucr.edu Mary C. Brinton [2003], mcb32@cornell.edu David Kinney* [2005], kinne1@da.cmich.edu Kathryn Schiller [2004], schiller@albany.edu John Robert Warren [2005], warre046@tc.umn.edu *Bradley and Kinney tied for second seat; both will serve one-year staggering terms

Newsletter:
	Editor Tom Hoffer, hoffer-tom@norc.net Editorial Assistant Robin Harvison, rharvison@bergen.edu

Webmaster: Carl Schmitt, carl.schmitt@ed.gov

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